Journalism teachers from Europe and the MENA region met at the Dead Sea in Jordan last week to discuss a sustainability strategy for the regional network of media schools which has been established by the EU-funded MedMedia programme. Held on May 24-25, the networking event brought together 35 delegates from Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, […]
Representatives from nine public service broadcasters in the Southern Mediterranean met in Beirut last week for the second phase of a peer-to-peer programme aimed at improving internal training policies and resources. The nine-month programme offers training managers a forum for developing internal strategies with a particular focus on ways in which capacity-building activities can address […]
Press release 3 May 2017 Representatives of public broadcasters from the Southern Mediterranean participated in a regional platform alongside academics, representatives of training centers and actors of the Arab cultural sphere, at the initiative of Med-Culture and MedMedia, two regional EU-funded programmes. The event, which was held at the Mohamed V University in Rabat on […]
Press release 23 March 2017 Representatives of Tunisia’s regulatory body took part in a three-day study tour to the United Kingdom and France last week under the aegis of the EU-funded MedMedia programme. During the trip, four members of the Haute autorité indépendante de la communication audiovisuelle (HAICA) met with counterparts from the United Kingdom’s […]
Press release 10 March 2017 The EU-funded MedMedia project marked International Women’s Day with a series of events held this week aimed at promoting the image of women in public life as well as their representation in news programming. More than 200 people attended four events in Tunis, Amman, Ramallah and Rabat which highlighted […]
Press release 6 March 2017 The EU-funded MedMedia programme today launched an innovative online database aimed at enhancing the representation of women in news programming across the Southern Mediterranean Region. Launched in the run-up to International Women’s Day on March 8, Khabirat is an online Arabic-language directory of women experts which has been designed for […]
Press release 2 March 2017 The EU-funded MedMedia programme, in partnership with the Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM), organised a workshop on in-house training for public service broadcasters in the Southern Mediterranean Region on February 27-28. Held in Amman, the event marked the beginning of nine-month peer-to-peer exchange programme aimed at developing training policy […]
Press release 17.02.2017 Algeria’s public broadcaster, the Etablissement public de télévision (EPTV) joined forces with the EU-funded MedMedia programme to deliver a three-day workshop on production in Algiers. The event, which brought together around 30 in-house and external producers on February 12-14, was aimed at identifying areas for improvement in EPTV’s production policies. It also […]
Representatives from Lebanon’s regulatory authority, the Conseil national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), took part in a three-day study tour to Italy this week under the auspices of the EU-funded MedMedia project. Two CNA board members visited Rome between December 5 and 7 with a view to preparing the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT) […]
Press release 28.11.2016 A networking event bringing together more than 30 media academics and practitioners was held in Cairo last week. Supported by the EU-funded MedMedia programme and hosted by the American University in Cairo, the November 20-21 event explored new strategies for improving media education in the Southern Mediterranean Region. A session on media […]
Press release 28.10.2016 Innovative ways of bringing the voices of young people and civil society to national audiences were the focus of a networking session hosted by the EU-funded MedMedia project at the Anna Lindh Foundation’s Mediterranean Forum in Malta this week. Entitled “Reach”, the session explored a range of digital media strategies, assessing the […]
Representatives from six media regulators attended a two-day event in Tel Aviv last week. Hosted by the Council for Cable and Satellite Broadcasting (CCSB) and supported by the EU-funded MedMedia project, the conference served as a closing event to the peer-to-peer exchange programme between the Josep Maria Carbonell, Dean of Blanquerna School of Communications and […]
Palestine’s Press and Publications Law was the focus of a consultancy visit to Ramallah organised by the EU-funded MedMedia peer-to-peer programme earlier this month. Jordanian expert Yahia Shukair spent two weeks working with the Media Development Centre (MDC) at Birzeit University, which operates a task force aimed at developing a national media strategy in Palestine. […]
An initiative aimed at strengthening the contribution made by women to media coverage across the Southern Mediterranean Region has secured widespread support in Palestine. Khabirat, an online directory of women experts which is being developed by the EU-funded MedMedia project, was presented to local stakeholders by Sarah Bouchetob, MedMedia’s Senior Networking and Communications Manager, at […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is the first Arab leader to sign the Declaration on Media Freedom in the Arab World at a meeting in Ramallah with representatives from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (PBC). Signed by the President on 2nd August, the Declaration represents […]
Implementing agencies from across the EU and the MENA region have urged the donor community to provide long-term financial support for improved coordination and knowledge-sharing in the media development sector. At a conference organised by the EU-funded MedMedia project and the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), representatives from 30 leading agencies highlighted the need […]
More practice in journalism training for students and integration of digital mutations in education are the two key themes of the study visit undertaken by Abdelkrim Hizaoui, Professor at the Institute of Press and Information Sciences (IPSI) in Tunis, to the Ecole supérieure de journalisme-Pro (ESJ-Pro) in Montpellier. The visit, which took place on 20 […]
A national conference held in Beirut this week provided a unique opportunity for Lebanese media stakeholders to discuss key issues on the reform of the country’s regulatory framework. Organised on 23-24 May by Lebanon’s broadcasting regulatory authority, the Conseil national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), and supported by the EU-funded MedMedia programme, the conference brought together 50 […]
Journalists’ unions, human rights campaigners and media groups from across the Arab World have backed a ground-breaking Declaration on Media Freedom. The Declaration which represents a commitment to the principles of media freedom, independent journalism and the right to information was endorsed at a meeting hosted by the International Federation of Journalists and the Moroccan […]
MedMedia, an EU-funded programme aimed at supporting media reforms in the Southern Mediterranean Region, will be holding three key events in Helsinki and Casablanca next month to mark World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) 2016. Organised on May 2 in the run-up to UNESCO’s WPFD conference in Helsinki, Finland, the first event will bring together media […]