ANKARA
The Anadolu Agency (AA) has launched certificate programs on diplomacy and finance journalism as part of the agency's centennial vision in order to train a new generation of journalists.
The opening ceremony was held at the AA headquarters in Turkish capital, Ankara.
Kemal Ozturk, Chairman of the Executive Board and Director General of AA, held the opening speech of the ceremony.
Ozturk addressed the students of diplomacy and finance certificate program of the News Academy and said that they could be very successful personally, they could know a foreign language very well or they could be very good researchers but those had no value unless they served as a team member of the AA family.
He emphasized the importance of the energy to work to come from the inside rather than to be plugged to a source to be motivated.
Ozturk gave information regarding the career path in the AA and said, "It is easy to establish a career in AA as long as you work hard. You should have realized from your interviews that there is no place for preferential treatment in this institution."
Ozturk reminded that the AA started broadcasting in Arabic, Bosnian and Russian in 2012 and its "Centennial Vision" was built on the new generation graduates of the Academy.
AA launches certificate programs on diplomacy, finance journalism
AA has launched certificate programs on diplomacy and finance journalism as part of the agency's centennial vision in order to train a new generation of journalists.
The opening ceremony was held at the AA headquarters in Ankara.
Kemal Ozturk held the opening speech of the ceremony.
First month, trainees will receive basics of agency journalism then they will receive training in their fields.
The AA News Academy's "Diplomatic Journalism" certificate program will be presented in coordination with the Turkish Foreign Ministry and the "Finance Journalism" certificate programme with the leading economy and finance establishments of Turkey.
The three month-long course will cover 420-hour training program, 172 of which will be allocated for practice in regional offices as well as at the AA headquarters.
In the framework of supporting agency's staff recruiting, AA launched its AA News Academy.
Attendees will be trained from Monday to Friday from 9.00 a.m. until 5.00 p.m. and will attend seminars where guests from the news media will come in.
During the training, participants will be trained in the fields of writing news in English, Arabic and French.
Accordingly, successful attendees will be employed by the AA at the end of the programs.
Furthermore, 1,402 people sent applications for both certificate programmes.
Work experiences, educational skills and language knowledge of participators were assessed at the interviews.
33 trainees for the diplomatic correspondent programme and 19 for the finance journalism have been picked to attend.
