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Following the outbreak of widespread fighting in July 2014, the media environment in Libya has fundamentally changed; Libyan journalists are now more likely to correspond with each other from cafes in Amman, Istanbul, Cairo and Tunis, not from Tripoli and Benghazi. The country is embroiled in a...
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
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Freedom of the Press 2015, the latest edition of an annual report published by Freedom House since 1980, found that global press freedom declined in 2014 to its lowest point in more than 10 years. The rate of decline also accelerated drastically, with the global average score suffering its largest...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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Global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade, according to the latest edition of Freedom House’s press freedom survey. The decline was driven in part by major regression in several Middle Eastern states, including Egypt, Libya, and Jordan; marked setbacks in Turkey, Ukraine...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014
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Every year organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and Freedom House publish their respective press freedom rankings. They usually cause an outcry, especially from countries low on the list. While politicians hotly defend their media policies, opposition parties and NGOs seize the...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014
The wave of Arab Spring that started in Tunisia and Egypt arrived to Morocco in 2011 paving the way to unprecedented organized mass-protests all over the country. Among the demands raised by the 20 February Movement protesters was the demand for free and independent media outlets, especially the...
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Sunday, November 1, 2015
Does self-regulation work? Are journalists bound by ethical codes and free to act according to conscience? Do media houses have credible internal systems for dealing with conflicts of interest and complaints from the public? Are there national accountability systems, such as press councils, that...
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Friday, November 25, 2016
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The Protection of Journalistic Sources is one of the basic conditions for press freedom: without proper mechanisms at the national level, sources may be deterred from assisting the press in informing the public on matters of public interest, ultimately impeding the press from providing accurate and...
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Friday, July 1, 2016
CIMA’s report examines how humanitarian crises around the world have led to a major change in the priorities and approaches in media development efforts.
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Friday, April 1, 2016
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Global Media Monitoring Project 2015 key findings suggest there have been only slight improvements in the past 20 years considering women’s inclusion in the global media. For example, since 2005 the overall number of women newsmakers rose only by 1 percent – up to 24 percent in total in the...
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Friday, November 25, 2016
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أطلق الاتحاد الدولي للصحافيين في المنطقة العربية والشرق الأوسط "حملة شريكات في القيادة النّقابية" لتشجيع الصحافيات على الانخراط في العمل النقابي من خلال حملات التدريب والتشبيك والاتصال ومن خلال الضغط والترشح لهيئات صنع القرار. وقد حددت أولويات مختلفة بما في ذلك ضرورة "زيادة نسبة تمثيل المرأة في...
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Friday, January 1, 2010