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Azerbaijani media representatives participate in European Newspaper Congressâ€™s meeting in Vienna

14 May 2012 13:51 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Next annual meeting of the European Newspaper Congress was held last week in Vienna, Austria. Editor of APA Information Agency Vugar Mustafayev and editor-in-chief of â€œZerkalo/Aynaâ€ newspapers Elchin Shikhlinski represented Azerbaijan in the meeting. APA reports that the representatives of more than 200 newspapers, magazines and information agencies from 30 countries participated in the forum.

The speeches about the main newspaper tendencies in Europe, effect of the electronic products on the labor market, the functioning of mass media in weekend and holidays, effect of bad news on human psychology, social media and socio-economic researches, experience of publication of regional and local newspapers, introduced errors were listened at the 3-days event.

Along with it, the income sources, pricing mechanism, combating the pay-wall system and perspectives in this sphere were discussed at the forum.

The leaders of 3 newspapers were given prizes. Thus, â€œBerlingskeâ€ (Denmark) were announced as Europeâ€™s daily national newspaper of the year, â€œNZZ am Sonntagâ€ (Germany) - Europeâ€™s weekly national newspaper of the year, â€œHordalandâ€ (Norway) - Europeâ€™s local newspaper of the year.

Japan Tobacco International Corporation provided a financial support to Azerbaijani media representativesâ€™ participation in the forum.

JTI is a member of the Japan Tobacco Group of Companies (JT), a leading international tobacco manufacturer. It markets world-renowned brands such as Winston, Mild Seven and Camel. Other international brands include Benson & Hedges, Silk Cut, Sobranie, Glamour and LD. With headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and net sales of USD 10.2 billion in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, JTI has operations in 120 countries and about 25,000 employees.