Network meeting oil reporters

Participants on IMCK's workshop on oil report returned to the mediacentre in Sulaymaniya for a network meeting. On June 28, 2011, they spent a day discussing their stories with trainer Ben Lando, who runs the Iraqi Oil Report website.

Special guest was Adnan Mayah, project officer of Al Mesalla Org for Human Resources Development, who briefed the reporters on the EITI project in Iraq, which collects information on the oil industry in Iraq and needs a Kurdish component too.

The reporters are asked to submit their stories on oil related subject no later then July 15, to be able to compete for the Oil is Money Prize that IMCK and Iraqi Oil Report are offering for the best stories on this subject.

The project is made possible with funding of the Open Society Institute.

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