OSCE organizes training on law-enforcement and media relations
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The OSCE Programme Office in Astana will support a four-day training seminar for some 30 prosecutors from all regions of Kazakhstan, Prosecutor General’s Office, National Bureau on Countering Corruption, and Economic Investigations Service of the Finance Ministry. The participants will discuss enhancing communication between the law-enforcement agencies and media, peculiarities of the law-enforcement press-services outreach and ways to promote open channels of communication based on particular cases from journalist perspective. The participants will learn on how to professionally report on sensitive and timely cases, such as terrorist attacks, prepare for public interviews and press-conferences, deal with fear of public presentations and methods to handle conflict situations.
The event will include information on the use of new media tools and social networks, as well as a practical exercise on proper drafting of press releases and press-briefings and interviewing with the use of video shooting.
The event is part of the OSCE Programme Office’s long-standing efforts to enhance co-operation between the law-enforcement agencies and media.