The newspaper Nur introduced me to the world of journalism

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The newspaper Nur introduced me to the world of journalism

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Ernest Nurmatov, correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

I had the highest GRT scores among our rural school's grads in 2006. I decided to major in journalism and started my paid education at Osh State University. Osh State University had radio, a television studio, and the newspaper Nur. My groupmates praised me after I somehow placed a couplet from one of my poems in a faculty newspaper box and it was published in the newspaper. From that moment I began to go to the editorial office.

I started by gathering letters from the newspaper boxes placed at each faculty. I and my friends read, organized and typed letters on the computer. Additionally, we also wrote for the newspaper.

The university management gradually started giving me more important duties and responsibilities for the newspaper's preparation and publication. I became proficient in all the editorial and typographical work procedures. They later offered to serve as an editor.  I tried to keep up with the times, update the format, and the content, and for this reason I became familiar with university newspapers in other cities around the country.

In my life, a lot of things happened. As a fourth-year student in 2010, I started working as a reporter for the republican radio station "Kabarlar." Later, I moved to Azattyk radio, where I remained employed till 2021. I've been employed at Azattyk in the Prague head office since 2021. At Radio Azattyk, I gained a lot of knowledge and grew as a journalist. However, the newspaper Nur introduced me to the world of journalism.