A special training for journalists, organised by the UNICEF Office in Turkmenistan with the support of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has started at the UN headquarters in Ashgabat. The event, which will last until 17 May, is conducted by international experts from Kazakhstan and Lithuania. This is reported by ‘Turkmenistan: Golden age’.

The training programme includes methods of creating quality content for children's audience, peculiarities of interviewing children and teenagers, principles of ethical representation of children in social advertising. Attention will be paid to the use of AI technologies to visualise children's content and the basics of storytelling when working with children's topics.

The participants of the training will practise their knowledge during group exercises on creating media materials. The event was an important step in raising the professional standards of the Turkmen media's work with children's issues, which is in line with international principles of child rights protection.