19
July
2012
Participants of My Province Festival of Regional Mass Media to Experience Baikal
The All-Russian festival of regional mass media Moya Provintsiya
(My Province) was officially opened in Ulan-Ude. The Festival will
take place on the shore of Lake Baikal in the Maksimikha village of
the Barguzinsky District on 17-20 July. For participation in the
Festival, representatives of 33 cities from Voronezh to the
Primorsky Territory came to the capital of the Republic, and the
number of participants who came to the Festival is twice
larger.
The event is traditionally held with the support of My Province
Center for Regional Mass Media Development. This year the
co-organizers of the Festival are the National Association of
Television and Radio Broadcasters of Russia, the Russian Radio
Academy, the Union of Journalists of Russia, TNT-Teleset OJSC, the
Administration of the President and Government of the Republic of
Buryatia, the Administration of Ulan-Ude and Inform Police
Publishing House. The METROPOL Group of Companies is one of the
Festival’s partners.
Three contests will be held in the framework of My Province
Festival that unites all types of mass media: a contests of
television films and programs, a contests of press and radio
reporting. The program will also include master classes in
television and radio broadcasting, round tables, discussions and an
extensive cultural and tour program with a visit to the Ivolginsky
Datsan, museums, a tour of the Baikal Harbor special economic zone,
motor boat rides on Baikal and fishing.
A representative of the organizing committee said that the
four-day festival will be attended by the Chairman of the Russian
Union of Journalists Vsevolod Bogdanov, deputy director of the St.
Petersburg Center for ITAR-TAS, Vladimir Alexandrov, two-time TEFI
winner Leonid Mlechin, Academician of the International Academy of
Television and Radio, Academician of the Eurasian Academy of
Television and Radio, President of the Festival Elena Fomina,
President of the journalistic foundation for the Union of
Journalists of Russia Alexander Kopeyka, Director of the TNT
Network Development Department Irina Khovanskaya and other
well-known Russian journalists.
The Festival has been held since 1999 and is attended by
representatives of 150 regional publications from all over the
country including television and radio journalists. The geography
of My Province festival movement covers over 170 cities all over
Russia.
The Festival opened with a round table discussion about New
Opportunities of Making Profit for Regional Media moderated by
Yelena Fominykh.
The Metropol Group is a partner of My Province All-Russian
Festival of Regional Mass Media.