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YEREVAN PRESS CLUB WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013
HIGHLIGHTS:
`PRESS CLUB' CYCLE: ETHICS OF REPORTING CRIME
SEMINAR DEALING WITH LEGAL REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION OF MEDIA
RA PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN ADDRESSED RA PROCURACY IN CONNECTION
TO
`HETQ' ARTICLE
`PRESS CLUB' CYCLE: ETHICS OF REPORTING CRIME
On June 3, another talk show of
`Press Club'
cycle, dealing with journalistic ethics, went on `Yerkir Media' TV
channel. The weekly TV cycle is produced by Yerevan Press Club with
the support of Deutsche Welle Academy.
The talk show considered the professional norms for covering crimes
and police reports. The `Press Club' discussants, Nerses Atabekian,
Chief Editor of `02' weekly (print edition of RA Police), and Gohar
Sargsian, special correspondent of `Respublika Armenia' newspaper,
expressed their views on this topical issue for Armenian media. The
program experts were Astghik Gevorgian, Chairwoman of Journalists
Union of Armenia, lawyer Ara Ghazarian, Avetik Ishkhanian, human
rights advocate, Chairman of Helsinki Committee of Armenia, and Arsen
Babayan, Head of Public Relations Unit of RA Judicial Department. YPC
President Boris Navasardian hosted the talk show.
The next `Press Club' will be aired on `Yerkir Media' on Monday, June
10 at 18.00 (rerun - on Saturday, June 15 at 12.00).
Watch `Press Club' of June 3, 2013 here
SEMINAR DEALING WITH LEGAL REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION OF MEDIA
On May 31 - June 2, Yerevan Press Club held a seminar on the `Current
situation and perspectives of legal regulation and self-regulation of
Armenian media' in `Arthur's Aghveran Resort'. The event was organized
under the `Alternative
Resources in Media' project, supported by USAID. The participants of
the seminar were members of the Media
Ethics Observatory (MEO), heads
and representatives of media and journalistic organizations, including
the ones, which have joined the YPC initiative to establish a media
self-regulation body in Armenia.
Media expert Mesrop Harutiunian presented the recommendations to amend
the Code of Conduct of Media
Representatives with regard to issues of privacy. YPC legal expert
Iren Aloyan elaborated on the need of supplementing the Code of
Conduct with ethical norms for online media. The report of Elina
Poghosbekian, Editor of YPC Weekly Newsletter, was dealing with the
ethical aspect of media coverage of the 2012-2013
electoral cycle. Ara
Ghazarian, lawyer and member of the Information Disputes Council
, presented the recent judicial
practice on defamation cases. YPC expert Heriknaz Harutiunian talked
about activities towards raising public awareness of the MEO,
particularly about the
`Press Club'
TV shows cycle. In his speech, YPC President Boris Navasardian spoke
about the organizational issues of the MEO.
RA PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN ADDRESSED RA PROCURACY IN CONNECTION
TO `HETQ' ARTICLE
On June 3, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan requested the RA
Procuracy to assess the evidence as contained in the article,
`Cyprus Troika: Who 'Stripped'
Businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan of His Assets?', published on May 29,
2013 in `Hetq' online (edition of Investigative Journalists NGO). As
the Adviser to RA General Prosecutor Sona Truzian informed YPC, the
Prime Minister's request was redirected to the RA Police and will be
examined in frames of the criminal proceedings instituted upon the
complaint of businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan.
The abovementioned `Hetq' article particularly reported that the Prime
Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan, Primate of the Ararat Diocese of
the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan and Ashot
Sukiasyan, who is engaged in diamond manufacturing, are the
shareholders of Wlispera Holdings Limited (WHL), an offshore company
registered in Cyprus. Further, the article stated that `WHL is
directly connected to a case involving the seizure of assets belonging
to businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan' and presented some details of the
story. The piece also provided a screenshot of the registration
certificate of Wlispera Holding Limited.
On May 29, the same day of publication of the article, `Hetq' stored
the answer of Harutyun Berberian, Press Secretary of Prime Minister,
`Prime Minister Sargsyan Ready to Go to Prosecutor General over
Hetq Exposé'. The answer stressed that Tigran Sargsyan has no
connection to Wlispera Holding Limited. `Moreover, neither has the
prime minister personally, or through any other authorized entity,
registered any organization in Cyprus or any other off-shore
location', the letter emphasized. Harutyun Berberian noted that the
screenshot of the registration certificate provided in the `Hetq'
article is false, and Tigran Sargsyan will address the RA Procuracy.
Meanwhile, `Hetq' mentioned in its editorial note that it has never
used false information and advised the Prime Minister `to first take a
look at the website of the Cyprus Department of Registrar of
Companies, to inspect the veracity of the information presented
therein', as well as examine `the bank transfers from Armenia to the
company in question, and vice-versa, and then contact the proper
authorities of Cyprus to expose any `conspiracy', if one indeed
exists'. Only having done so should the Prime Minister address to the
Procuracy, the editorial note stated. `Hetq' also expressed hope that
the Procuracy will regard its article as a report on crime.
When reprinting or using the information above, reference to the
Yerevan Press Club is required. You are welcome to send any comment
and feedback about the Newsletter to: [email protected]
Subscription for the Newsletter is free. To subscribe or unsubscribe
from this mailing list, please send a message to: [email protected]
Editor of YPC Newsletter - Elina POGHOSBEKIAN
____________________________________________
Yerevan Press Club
9B, Ghazar Parpetsi str.
0002, Yerevan, Armenia
Tel.: (+ 374 10) 53 00 67; 53 35 41; 53 76 62
Fax: (+374 10) 53 56 61
E-mail: [email protected]
Web Site: www.ypc.am
From: A. Papazian
MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013
HIGHLIGHTS:
`PRESS CLUB' CYCLE: ETHICS OF REPORTING CRIME
SEMINAR DEALING WITH LEGAL REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION OF MEDIA
RA PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN ADDRESSED RA PROCURACY IN CONNECTION
TO
`HETQ' ARTICLE
`PRESS CLUB' CYCLE: ETHICS OF REPORTING CRIME
On June 3, another talk show of
`Press Club'
cycle, dealing with journalistic ethics, went on `Yerkir Media' TV
channel. The weekly TV cycle is produced by Yerevan Press Club with
the support of Deutsche Welle Academy.
The talk show considered the professional norms for covering crimes
and police reports. The `Press Club' discussants, Nerses Atabekian,
Chief Editor of `02' weekly (print edition of RA Police), and Gohar
Sargsian, special correspondent of `Respublika Armenia' newspaper,
expressed their views on this topical issue for Armenian media. The
program experts were Astghik Gevorgian, Chairwoman of Journalists
Union of Armenia, lawyer Ara Ghazarian, Avetik Ishkhanian, human
rights advocate, Chairman of Helsinki Committee of Armenia, and Arsen
Babayan, Head of Public Relations Unit of RA Judicial Department. YPC
President Boris Navasardian hosted the talk show.
The next `Press Club' will be aired on `Yerkir Media' on Monday, June
10 at 18.00 (rerun - on Saturday, June 15 at 12.00).
Watch `Press Club' of June 3, 2013 here
SEMINAR DEALING WITH LEGAL REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION OF MEDIA
On May 31 - June 2, Yerevan Press Club held a seminar on the `Current
situation and perspectives of legal regulation and self-regulation of
Armenian media' in `Arthur's Aghveran Resort'. The event was organized
under the `Alternative
Resources in Media' project, supported by USAID. The participants of
the seminar were members of the Media
Ethics Observatory (MEO), heads
and representatives of media and journalistic organizations, including
the ones, which have joined the YPC initiative to establish a media
self-regulation body in Armenia.
Media expert Mesrop Harutiunian presented the recommendations to amend
the Code of Conduct of Media
Representatives with regard to issues of privacy. YPC legal expert
Iren Aloyan elaborated on the need of supplementing the Code of
Conduct with ethical norms for online media. The report of Elina
Poghosbekian, Editor of YPC Weekly Newsletter, was dealing with the
ethical aspect of media coverage of the 2012-2013
electoral cycle. Ara
Ghazarian, lawyer and member of the Information Disputes Council
, presented the recent judicial
practice on defamation cases. YPC expert Heriknaz Harutiunian talked
about activities towards raising public awareness of the MEO,
particularly about the
`Press Club'
TV shows cycle. In his speech, YPC President Boris Navasardian spoke
about the organizational issues of the MEO.
RA PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN ADDRESSED RA PROCURACY IN CONNECTION
TO `HETQ' ARTICLE
On June 3, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan requested the RA
Procuracy to assess the evidence as contained in the article,
`Cyprus Troika: Who 'Stripped'
Businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan of His Assets?', published on May 29,
2013 in `Hetq' online (edition of Investigative Journalists NGO). As
the Adviser to RA General Prosecutor Sona Truzian informed YPC, the
Prime Minister's request was redirected to the RA Police and will be
examined in frames of the criminal proceedings instituted upon the
complaint of businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan.
The abovementioned `Hetq' article particularly reported that the Prime
Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan, Primate of the Ararat Diocese of
the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan and Ashot
Sukiasyan, who is engaged in diamond manufacturing, are the
shareholders of Wlispera Holdings Limited (WHL), an offshore company
registered in Cyprus. Further, the article stated that `WHL is
directly connected to a case involving the seizure of assets belonging
to businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan' and presented some details of the
story. The piece also provided a screenshot of the registration
certificate of Wlispera Holding Limited.
On May 29, the same day of publication of the article, `Hetq' stored
the answer of Harutyun Berberian, Press Secretary of Prime Minister,
`Prime Minister Sargsyan Ready to Go to Prosecutor General over
Hetq Exposé'. The answer stressed that Tigran Sargsyan has no
connection to Wlispera Holding Limited. `Moreover, neither has the
prime minister personally, or through any other authorized entity,
registered any organization in Cyprus or any other off-shore
location', the letter emphasized. Harutyun Berberian noted that the
screenshot of the registration certificate provided in the `Hetq'
article is false, and Tigran Sargsyan will address the RA Procuracy.
Meanwhile, `Hetq' mentioned in its editorial note that it has never
used false information and advised the Prime Minister `to first take a
look at the website of the Cyprus Department of Registrar of
Companies, to inspect the veracity of the information presented
therein', as well as examine `the bank transfers from Armenia to the
company in question, and vice-versa, and then contact the proper
authorities of Cyprus to expose any `conspiracy', if one indeed
exists'. Only having done so should the Prime Minister address to the
Procuracy, the editorial note stated. `Hetq' also expressed hope that
the Procuracy will regard its article as a report on crime.
When reprinting or using the information above, reference to the
Yerevan Press Club is required. You are welcome to send any comment
and feedback about the Newsletter to: [email protected]
Subscription for the Newsletter is free. To subscribe or unsubscribe
from this mailing list, please send a message to: [email protected]
Editor of YPC Newsletter - Elina POGHOSBEKIAN
____________________________________________
Yerevan Press Club
9B, Ghazar Parpetsi str.
0002, Yerevan, Armenia
Tel.: (+ 374 10) 53 00 67; 53 35 41; 53 76 62
Fax: (+374 10) 53 56 61
E-mail: [email protected]
Web Site: www.ypc.am
From: A. Papazian