At the beginning of the meeting, the President of the Southern Technical University, Prof. Adnan Abdullah Atiq, met with the officials of the media divisions of the university formations in Basra, Maysan and Dhi Qar governorates. Atiq stressed the importance of quality news that elevates the university to the ranks of other universities and away from personalizing the news for the official, pointing to the importance of openness to others and highlighting the news that provides services to the community. He pointed out that the role of the media is to document success stories for creative people not only from our university formations but more so to the creative people in our dear governorates, adding that the unification of media discourse
