Today, APA Journalism School, a new project of APA Media Group, has started its activities.

The head of APA Media Group, Vusala Mahirgizi, noted that 230 requests were received to participate in the training:

“Our team selected 26 people to participate in the training. We think that the first participants of the APA Journalism School will become well-known signatures of the Azerbaijani media in the future."

Vusala Mahirgizi also added that APA Group itself will use the training participants to enrich its personnel bank:

“Those who will take part in the three-month training will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of the company. In addition to instructors, every week well-known journalists, bloggers, and new media experts will share their experience with training participants.”

It should be noted that the first instructors at the APA Journalism School will be honored journalist Gabil Abbasoglu, well-known TV journalist Ilgar Alfi, director of APA TV Orkhan Mammadli.

Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Azerbaijan Seyyed Jafar Aghaee visited APA Group, APA reports.

During the meeting held in APA Media Group, a broad exchange of views on cooperation between the Azerbaijani and Iranian media took place.

The necessity of developing relations between the two countries' media was emphasized, and the special role of the press in deepening these relations was noted.

Azerbaijan-based APA Group a media organization has launched its mobile application for both Android and iOS platforms.

APA Group mobile application is already available from Google Play Store and Apple App Store is available for download and provides users with the latest news from Azerbaijan, as well as the world.

APA Group mobile application is the best opportunity for users to get acquainted with new news at any time.

Azeri Press Agency (APA), Lent.az portal, Ona.az portal, news and articles of Vesti.az portal, Kulis.az literature and culture portal, as well as APA TV, can be easily watched in the APA Group mobile application.

The winners of the mobile film competition “Road to Our Village”, jointly organized by the State Tourism Agency and APA Media Group, have become known.

The award ceremony was attended by famous directors of the country, film critics, writers, and poets, as well as guests who showed interest in the competition.

During his speech, competition director Orkhan Mammadli spoke about the idea of ​​creating the competition: “In the materials shot on a mobile phone, in a sense, something like a film is already happening. All you have to do is guide and view it in the right direction. We decided that we needed to hold such a competition.”

General Director of APA Media Group Nurshan Guliyev spoke about the useful aspects of the competition: “This competition is a necessary project for identifying unexplored corners of our country and demonstrating their uniqueness. One of the main useful aspects of the competition is the expansion of cooperation between the tourism sector and the media and the opening of new projects. We wish that such competitions become a trend and are held all the time.”

Kanan Guluzadeh, advisor to the chairman of the State Tourism Agency, drew attention to the great interest of the project.

"Such projects are also useful from the point of view of tourism. I congratulate those who took part in the competition, including the winners. I wish the project to be sustainable," said Kanan Guluzadeh.

Jury member, secretary of the Azerbaijan Cinematographers Union, and film director Ali Isa Jabbarov said that they are ready to provide the necessary support on behalf of the Azerbaijan Cinematographers Union in future projects: “You need to admire your homeland through a mobile phone. It's necessary. We already see beautiful images on TV. As I noted, we are ready to provide all possible support to the project so that it is permanent.”

After the performances, the names of the winners were announced and the award ceremony took place. The winner of the online voting on social networks was Sarvar Abdullayev with the film “The Road to Our Village.” Third place went to the film “The Mulberry Path” co-authored with Elvin Majidli and Dilaver Manafov.

By the decision of the jury, two authors received second place. This is Khayal Iskenderov with the film “The Road to Our Village - Gelebin” and Orkhan Sadigov with the film “Honey Road”.

First place in the competition went to Khayyam Namazov (Omar Khayyam) with the film “Once Upon a Time in Nija.”

It should be noted that the jury of the competition included film director Ali Isa Jabbarov, and film experts Sevda Sultanova and Aygun Aslan.

The jury's voting was conducted anonymously.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to Azerbaijan Faisal bin Abdullah Hamad Abdullah Al Henzab has paid a visit to APA Group.

The ambassador has met with the head of APA Group Vusala Mahirgizi.

Relations between the media of the two countries and cooperation in various directions have been discussed at the meeting

The diplomat noted that his country attaches great importance to relations with Azerbaijan and supports Azerbaijan's righteous work in the ongoing Patriotic war.

He said the two countries were working on important projects on cooperation in tourism, information technology and other fields, as well as mutual investment. The ambassador also stressed that work is underway on the organization of a program of cooperation between the media organizations of the two countries, the organization of mutual visits of journalists from both countries to get to know each other better and get acquainted with perspective fields. Faisal bin Abdullah Al Henzab has expressed confidence that new opportunities will arise for the further deepening of relations between Azerbaijan and Qatar after the end of the Azerbaijani Patriotic war and the coronavirus pandemic.

In her turn, V. Mahirgizi expressed gratitude to state of Qatar and its media for their support to Azerbaijan in its righteous work. V. Mahirgizi noted that Azerbaijan and Qatar have always been friend countries, APA Information Agency has always closely cooperated with Embassy of Qatar to Azerbaijan, as well as media bodies of the country. It has been noted that APA-Group has presented materials, reflecting death of people, destruction of residential buildings, civilian facilities, as Ganja, Barda, and other cities were shelled by Armenians using rockets, to them on the basis of appeal of Al-Jazeera bureau in Turkey.

She said that there are broad prosperities for deepening cooperation between both our countries, and media bodies of the countries, brought to attention importance of conduction of joint projects, as well as organization of mutual visits of media representatives for it.

V. Mahirgizi noted that institutions, included in APA-Group, are ready to provide information support to the work of further deepening relations between our countries.

Phishing attack committed gainst www.apa.az web page belonging to APA Agency.

Provocative information against SOCAR, which had never been disseminated in APA, was placed on the website. The purpose of phishing placed completely under a different domain is to deceive citizens under the pretext to buy shares. The reason for using APA’s design, logo style, and phishing the page even by using the author's signature is that the Agency is accepted as a trusted and reliable informational source.

APA Media Group notes that the company employees were aware of it on May 11, and an immediate official appeal was made to the Electron Security Service of the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport.

The appeal called for an investigation and action to be taken against the website that misrepresented APA and SOCAR and spread false news.

The company notes once again that APA's official web address is www.apa.az domain.