Learning to ask questions

Finns Anders Mård and Sari Pöyhönen on the Russian workshop

Nordic “secrets”

Finnish journalist Anders Mård shared the “secrets” of Nordic journalists the work in the art of asking questions He has been living for years in St. Petersburg and  has first-hand knowledge of our actual. After listening to good pieces of advice and a little argument about their usefulness in relation to our society, the participants took part in the training of the press conference and in the preparation to the interview, followed by "debriefing".

Training for experienced journalists  
The press conference was given by Sari Pöyhönen, an assistant for Culture and  Media of the Head of Murmansk branch of the General Consulate of Finland in St. Petersburg. She gave details about the work of the Consulate, especially boasting that on 1, December this year it has been already set a record: 39 000 Finnish visas were issued: "This does not include December, the month, when the greatest number of Russians go to Finland" - said Sari.

But not only the information about visas and many cultural events of the Finnish Consulate were told by Sari. Our colleague and an active participant of the Barents Press took part in the journalistic part of the workshop. She told about the Finnish view on Russian journalism, and took an active part in discussions.

Nikolay Bakshevnikov, the chairman of the Murmansk regional organization of the Union of Journalists of Russia, agreed to be the second “victim” (second to left)

 He spoke about the forthcoming book, the balance of his six-year work. The book will be called "Journalism of the Kola region. 20th Century".

The workshop was organized by Barents Press and the Murmansk regional organization of the Union of journalists of Russia with the support of the Nordic Center for Journalism (Denmark).

Elena Larionova

Translated by Tatiana Kotova

Pictures: Elena Ishenko and Olga Popova