“Reporting on political conflicts in KR: how to keep the balance of opinion?”
Roundtable transcript
On October 14 the Bishkek Press Club held a roundtable on "Reporting on political conflicts in KR: how to keep the balance of opinion?" Public figures, political scientists, media experts and journalists participated in the roundtable.
List of participants:
Moderator: Erlan Abdyldaev, director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Aida Kasymalieva, editor for Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, project "Reporting Central Asia" of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Jennifer Croft, consultant of the project "Human Rights Protection and human rights education through the media in Central Asia", Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Alexander Kulinskii, chairman of the commission dealing with complaints against the mass media;
Grigory Mikhaylov, correspondent of the newspaper "Nezavisimaya Gazeta"
Naryn Ayip, director of KNIA Kabar
Nur Omarov, political scientist
Dmitry Orlov, correspondent of the newspaper MSN
Kubat Otorbaev, director of Radio Azattyk
Temir Sariev, leader of the Ak Shumkar political party
Ksenia Tolkaneva, correspondent of 24.kg
Begaim Usenova, director of the Media Representative Institute
And participants of the project "Enhancing the capacity of journalists in covering political conflicts".
Erlan Abdyldaev: Dear friends, first of all, I would like to welcome you all to the Bishkek Press Club and express my gratitude to you for accepting the invitation to participate in our roundtable. The topic of the roundtable is "Reporting on political conflicts in Kyrgyzstan: how to keep the balance of opinion?".
This problem is very topical. Experts on this issue are taking part in our roundtable today. There will be three speakers. The first speaker is Kubat Otorbaev, head of Radio Azattyk. The topic of his report is "International standards of journalism - the key to keeping the balance in coverage of political conflicts. The experience of Radio Azattyk. Our second speaker is Alexander Kulinskii, the chairman of the commission dealing with complaints against the mass media. The topic of his speech is "Ethical code for journalists in covering political conflicts." The third speaker is Mr. Nur Omarov. He will announce the topic of his report later.
The full text of the transcript is available here