APA and Kazakhstan’s Nur Media Holding sign agreement on cooperation
APA Director General Vusala Mahirgizi and Nur Media Holding Director General Armanjan Baytasov signed the agreement. APA-ECONOMICS editor-in-chief Vugar Mustafayev and Nur Media Holding Deputy Director General Askar Umarov also participated at the ceremony.
The participants held a briefing after the signing ceremony.
Vusala Mahirgizi called it as an important event to sign an agreement with the leading media holding of one of the Turkic-speaking countries. She said it would be positive case if Nur Media Holding and APA created joint network to encourage other media organizations of the Turkic-speaking countries to sign agreements on cooperation.
Mahirgizi talked about the history of founding of APA. She said APA launched operation on November 16, 2004. The Agency employs 50 people and a great number of freelancers.
The daily capacity is 450 to 500 news articles. The APA is financed by subscription and ad fees.
Baytasov spoke about the establishment of the holding, activity, present state of media in Kazakhstan.
It was noted that Nur media LLC was established on the initiative of Nur Otan People's Democratic Party on November 24 last year. The holding includes 1 TV channel, 2 radio stations and 8 newspapers. The newspapers "Strana i mir", "Dala men kala", "Aykin", "Liter", "Turkistan", "Nur Astana", "Izvestia-Kazakhstan", "Kazakhstan temirzholshisi" sell 440,000 copies. Moreover, the holding includes Astana TV channel, NS radio station and Delovaya volna radio. The priority of Nur media is to release unbiased information about political, economic and cultural life of the country, participate in the social projects, Kazinform refers to APA.