Women's leadership representation in the independent journalism sector in the Arab world is high especially when compared to their representation within the leadership of mainstream media. How does th...
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Fatemah Farag
founder and CEO Welad Elbalad Media
Fatemah Farag is the founder and CEO of Welad Elbalad Media, a company dedicated to community media development and media excellence in Egypt. She is a World Editors Forum Board Member and has been the MENA Director for WAN-IFRA’s Women in News Program, a WAN-IFRA Executive Committee Board Member and a Neiman Fellow. Prior to Welad, Fatemah was the founding chief editor of the English Edition of Al Masry Al Youm. Before 2009, she divided her professional time between the newsroom and journalism training and media education.
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As the media eco-system debates measures of accountability, self-regulation, ethical conduct and the connection of these measures to sustainability the issue of gender equality and inclusive newsroom ...
Egypt is near the top the list worldwide when it comes to sexual harassment. For the first time there has been a case in court against an editor. May Elshamy accused her editor of sexual harassment in...
#IJF19 /
5 april 2019
Journalism when caught between right-wing extremism and military authoritarianism
This session explores the crises of journalism and freedom of expression globally in term of the quandary in which we find ourselves, faced by religious and ideological extremism (e.g. Islamist extrem...
Much has been said about women as journalists and media managers, about their being victims, about a lack of opportunity, about their being kept under glass ceilings, being paid less, given less oppor...
Who wins public space to become the influencer of the global narrative, with far reaching impact on how we perceive of the world around us? A critical look at technology, the management of fake news, ...
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14 april 2018
Journalism and the future of the internet: help the UN draft a new international standard for a free and open worldwide web
The future of journalism is inextricably bound up with the wider Internet ecosystem. UNESCO, the UN agency with primary responsibility for media freedom and journalists' safety, is consulting worldwid...
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12 april 2018
Achieving gender parity in the media: cross Africa-ME perspectives and experiences
Much ado is made about gender equality in the media (in business structures and in terms of content produced) and much money is spent on “gender” programs for media. And yet the business and conte...
Not everything that’s digital is online, so why is it so hard for the journalism industry (especially in the Middle East) to realise that not everything that’s online is digital. What’s happeni...