Esra Arsan of Bilgi University, Yücel Tunca of the Photography Foundation and journalism teacher, trainer Robert Slagt worked with the participants in parallel sessions. During the training there was a special focus on financial vulnerability of the local media. Robert Slagt and Esra Arsan paid special attention to the importance of making balanced, objective and independent news urging journalists to promote public interest, not the interests of local authorities. Yucel Tunca made a presentation about the history of photo journalism and showed journalists how to be more selective and creative. He too urged journalists to catch the human touch while taking photos not only displaying talking heads of the local VIPs.
Participant journalists repeatedly expressed their satisfaction about the training and requested to have more of these trainings.
