Sputnik Launches 1-Week SputnikPro Workshops For Latin American Journalists

Sputnik International News Agency and Radio on Monday launched the SputnikPro project for young journalists from Latin America, scheduled to run until Friday at the media group's headquarters in Moscow.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th October, 2018) Sputnik International News Agency and Radio on Monday launched the SputnikPro project for young journalists from Latin America, scheduled to run until Friday at the media group's headquarters in Moscow.

The October session is attended by reporters from 12 countries representing the following newspapers: Argentina's La Nacion, Brazil's Folha de S. Paolo, Colombia's El Tiempo, Ecuador's El Telegrafo, Uruguay's El Observador, and Guatemala's Prensa Libre, as well as Venezuela's Telesur TV, Mexico's Azteca tv and Chile's Chilevision broadcasters, among other media.

The participants will look at how a multimedia news agency operates and learn about media trends as well as about producing content for online news platforms.

This year, for the first time, separate training sessions are expected for journalists from Latin America and Caribbean countries.

"I'm looking forward to meet journalists from other countries ans share experiences with them. Also I'm excited to learn more about Russian culture and news-making," Tiago Zacarias Amancio from Folha de S. Paolo said, as quoted by Sputnik press service.

Coralia Yungan Perez from El Telegrafo expressed hope that "the contacts established during the project will help promote closer relations between our countries.

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"Cooperation with Latin American countries is a priority of ours. We hold SputnikPro in this region for the first time and we hope that it will become another step towards closer relations between Russian journalists and their Latin American colleagues," Sputnik Deputy Editor-in-Chief Anton Anisimov said.

SputnikPro is an international project for journalists, students and press service workers designed to exchange expertise with foreign colleagues, develop international media communications and intercultural ties between journalists. SputnikPro for Latin American journalists is organized in collaboration with the New Generation program of Russia's foreign cooperation agency (Rossotrudnichestvo).

Sputnik is one of the largest international media companies offering country-specific and regional multimedia websites in 32 languages, analog and digital radio broadcasting in Russian, English and French in 130 cities and online. Sputnik newsfeeds deliver 24/7 content to leading international media around the world in English, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese. Sputnik websites get more than 50 million visitors a month. Sputnik operates 22 bureaus across the world employing more than 1,000 people from dozens of countries.