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TEHRAN – The veteran journalist and expert on communication sciences, Yunes Shokrkhah, was honored during the opening ceremony of the 11th International Conference on Public Relations at Tehran’s Olympic Hotel on Sunday.
He was awarded a Dr. Hamid Notghi Prize that the organizers of the conference present to scholars contributing to the development of public relations science.
Established in 2004, the award was named after the founder of modern public relations in Iran Hamid Notghi (1920-1999).
Shokrkhah received the award from Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhundi.
The cultural advisor to President Hassan Rouhani, Hessameddin Ashena, and several other officials attended the ceremony.
Shokrkhah, 57, is assistant professor of mass communication at the University of Tehran and the director of the Institute for North American and European Studies (INAES) at the university
He has been a journalist for twenty-five years, and has been member of the juries of a dozen press festivals and photojournalism competitions.
Photo: Veteran journalist Yunes Shokrkhah (R) receives the Dr. Hamid Notghi Prize from Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhundi in Tehran on October 19, 2014. (ISNA/Hamid Forutan)
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