Journalism department teachers from Kazakhstan have undergone an intensive program. They will use it while teaching their own students.
The training was organized by IWPR Central Asia with the support of the UK Government as part of a project to develop new media and digital journalism in Central Asia. An early similar event was held in Bishkek for university professors in Kyrgyzstan.
For 6 days in Almaty, 22 teachers from 8 regions of Kazakhstan participated in trainings on new media from CABAR.asia Media School. During these days, they have learned about media consumption by a modern audience, a personal brand in journalism, storytelling, visualization and creation of multimedia stories, media literacy, conflict-sensitive and gender-sensitive journalism.
There were also practical works on planning multimedia stories, creating long-reads, as well as promoting personal pages on social networks.
The trainers were experienced experts and trainers from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The Village Kazakhstan CEO Aisana Ashim told the participants about creating and promoting a personal brand, and media trainer Asel Dzhanabaeva talked about media literacy, fact checking and opposing hate speech and trolling. Visualization trainer Aizada Toktogulova held a session on visual storytelling, and project coordinator Begaiym Adzhikeeva held a session on gender-sensitive journalism.
Maral Aitmagambetova, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philology and Journalism, Innovative University of Eurasia (Pavlodar):
“Participation in the CABAR.asia media school has become an excellent platform for us to gain new knowledge and exchange professional experience. Each session was interesting in its own way. I identify the training with Lenur Yunusov, editor of Inc.Russia, and Anastasia Lotareva, editor-in-chief of the portal “Takie Dela” and the author of cool long reads, as key sessions for me.”
Among the invited trainers from Russia, there was Anastasia Lotareva , editor-in-chief of the Russian portal takiedela.ru, who held a session on storytelling. Lenur Yunusov, editor of the Russian edition of the American magazine Inc.Russia, told the participants about the media needs of a modern audience, monetization of publication, as well as planning of publications and creation of bright headlines.
Asemgul Smailova , lecturer, Faculty of Journalism, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Astana):
“I want to express my deep gratitude to the organizers of such an informative and interesting training. The competent composition of the coaches was selected, and the organization of the training was at a high level. Currently, we live in an era of information, new technologies, virtual world, every day there are new resources, new channels, platforms, etc. Such trainings give us the opportunity to keep up to date, and transfer this experience to our students. Thank you for such an opportunity. ”
At the end of the school, each teacher will conduct two trainings for their students within the walls of their native universities and pass on the knowledge to the next generation of journalists.
This project was launched by IWPR Central Asia in April 2019, in order to increase the potential of journalism department and their students, novice journalists, future bloggers and opinion leaders in producing high-quality, impartial objective and gender and conflict-sensitive content.
During the training for teachers, a free online educational resource was presented – Media school CABAR.asia, where modules will be available on new media, content creation, personal brand promotion, video storytelling, podcast creation and digital security.
This project is being implemented by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting ( IWPR ) with financial support from the UK Government. The views expressed during project activities and / or in project publications do not reflect the official views of the UK Government and IWPR.
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