The three-day "Journalism Training Programme" for Algerian journalists, organised in collaboration with the Presidency's Directorate of Communications and Anadolu Agency (AA), has ended.
Ambassador of Türkiye to Algeria Muhammet Mücahit Küçükyılmaz, AA Deputy Director General Oğuz Enis Peru, Undersecretary of the Algerian Embassy in Ankara Faisal Allek, Head of the Public Diplomacy Department of the Presidency's Directorate of Communications Assoc. Prof. Oğuz Güner and AA Academy Director Zeynep Bayramoğlu Öztürk attended the certificate programme.
AA Deputy Director General Peru stated that AA operates in 137 countries with 39 offices and broadcasting centres, has subscribers in 76 countries, broadcasts in 13 languages and produced a total of 2.1 million pieces of content in 2023.
Peru emphasized that the Embedded Journalism Training has been delivered by AA Academy since 2012 by expert trainers and that the "Embedded Journalism Certificate" has international validity, inviting individuals to join the Embedded Journalism Training.
Peru noted that Algerian journalists gained valuable experience during the three-day Journalism Training Programme and that 27 Algerian journalists had previously participated in the energy journalism, embedded journalism and disaster journalism programmes offered by the AA Academy.
The Ambassador of Türkiye to Algeria, Küçükyılmaz, thanked the Directorate of Communications and AA for organising the programme.
Pointing out that the peoples of Algeria and Türkiye are brothers and sisters, yet there has been a “lost time” in their state relations, Küçükyılmaz said that efforts should be exerted to make up for this lost time and added: “This event is one of the signs of this effort because we need to understand one another's positions, attitudes and problems.”
Noting that the agencies that deploy correspondents around the world are Western agencies and they possess a significant amount of capital, Küçükyılmaz said that these agencies develop a media language consistent with their own ideological and political priorities.
Küçükyılmaz stressed the need to increase human mobility between the two countries to make up for lost time.
Referring to the common historical figures between the two countries, Küçükyılmaz said that the ties should be strengthened.
Mr Allek, the Undersecretary of the Algerian Embassy in Ankara, stated that the two countries have a shared history and culture, as well as the same perspective and that the meeting at the presidential level strengthened the relations between the two countries.
During the Journalism Training Programme, 15 Algerian journalists received training on various topics for 3 days. The number of Algerian journalists trained at the Academy reached 42.
Participants received certificates after the training delivered by experts on Data Visualisation, Fact-Checking Journalism, Visual Competence, Social Media, Cyber Security, Crisis Management, and Strategic Communication.
