BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 16.
Vugar Zifaroghlu was elected new chairman of the Press Council of
Azerbaijan following a vote held during the 9th Congress of
Azerbaijani Journalists, Trend's correspondent reports from the event.
Zifaroghlu was born on October 12, 1978, in Baku. From 1985
through 1995, he attended secondary school No. 190, named after
Osman Mirzayev. From 1995 through 2001, he pursued his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in International Journalism at Baku State
University.
From 1999 through 2001, he worked for various media outlets. He
has been affiliated with Baku State University since 2001. From
2001 through 2004, he served as a senior laboratory assistant in
the Department of Theory and Practice of Journalism at the
university. Since 2006, he has worked as a lecturer in the
Department of International Journalism. From 2010 through 2017, he
served as the head of the “Journalism” Scientific-Research
Laboratory. Since 2017, he has held the position of Dean of the
Faculty of Journalism.
In 2005, he defended his Candidate’s dissertation on the topic
“Ethical norms in international journalism and the Azerbaijani
Press.” In 2017, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic
“Information manipulation in foreign mass media in the contemporary
era and its impact on Azerbaijan’s internet media.” He holds the
degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences.
Zifaroghlu teaches courses on international journalism, new
global journalism, modern media systems in foreign countries, and
contemporary international relations and journalism. He’s the
author of three teaching-methodological manuals, one monograph, and
three books.
He’s married and has two children.
