Reading 1. -What is the most important medium for people in your country?

-What is the most important medium for people in your country? What about people of your age?

- Do you think that the media covers too much bad news and not enough good news? What was the last " good news" story you heard?

What is The Eurasian Media Forum?

The Eurasian Media Forum is the most prominent international media initiative in Eurasia aimed at defining the strategic role of Eurasia in world affairs, exploring a new approach to international relations, promoting equality of access to reliable public information throughout the area and encouraging the highest standards of journalism.

The Eurasian Media Forum facilitates the professional development of the Eurasian media and promotes international public understanding of Eurasian issues. It achieves this in a number of ways, for example by analyzing the current state of the regional media and its development; by discussing the current issues affecting the development of the Eurasian media market; by providing a platform for discussion on the role and place of the Eurasian continent in the global development and peace building processes; and by creating opportunities for building new partnerships and developing innovative cooperation models.

To this end, the Forum has launched the series of annual conferences for invited delegates, all with a special interest in the strategic role of Eurasia in world affairs: the issues, the options and the potential.

The first five conferences held annually since 2002 have each attracted more than 500 media, political and business experts from 60 countries. Attendees to the Almaty meetings have debated many current subjects including the changing patterns of international relations, post 9/11 diplomacy, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and media issues surrounding coverage of terrorism, extremism, religious and interethnic tolerance.

The Eurasian Media Forum was initiated by the Kazakhstan National Khabar News Agency and was officially registered as a non-political, non-profit, non-governmental organization — Eurasian Media Forum Foundation — in Almaty in September 2001. In 2002 the Foundation opened its Representative Office in Moscow for better interaction with the Russian and CIS media communities and established a London-based working group. The Foundation is in charge of organizing the annual Eurasian Media Forum conferences and implementing all corresponding activities during the intervening period.

(https://eamedia.org/en/about/)