Malek Khadhraoui – ARIJ18 https://arij18.arij.net Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.10 https://arij18.arij.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/cache/2020/11/cropped-logo-square/1690826714.jpg Malek Khadhraoui – ARIJ18 https://arij18.arij.net 32 32 10 Years after the Arab Spring: IJ Challenges https://arij18.arij.net/sessions/10-years-after-the-arab-spring-ij-challenges/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:51:25 +0000 https://arij18.arij.net/?post_type=sessions&p=1931 This plenary discusses the core challenges investigative journalism is facing 10 years on from the Arab spring. In all Arab countries, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi is not to be forgotten. Street demonstrations and popular protests spread to other countries including Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. Since 2010, online-driven movements have also emerged in much of the developing world with citizens taking a leading role in gathering and producing news while demanding a greater voice in determining their social and political destinies, raising hopes for greater political inclusion and freedom, including press freedom.

In marking the 10th anniversary of the so-called Arab Spring, we also ask whether the revolutions have inspired fundamental changes in the ways in which investigative journalists operate, questioning whether they face operational obstacles and if so, counterquestioning whether freedom of speech has regressed to pre-revolution conditions.





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]]> Challenges of the sustainability of journalism in the MENA region hosted with the Forum on Information and Democracy and CFI https://arij18.arij.net/sessions/challenges-of-the-sustainability-of-journalism-in-the-mena-region-hosted-with-the-forum-on-information-and-democracy-and-cfi/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 05:53:30 +0000 https://arij18.arij.net/?post_type=sessions&p=1913 The decline of different sources of income endangers the survival of many independent news media and impacts the quality of journalistic content. Not to mention the digital platforms that often blur distinctions between journalism and other forms of content (including information sponsored by interest, influencers, propaganda from foreign states, etc.) and provide people with limited signals to distinguish between reported news and other material.

As COVID-19 exacerbates the fragility of journalism, “The working group on the sustainability of journalism” launched by the Forum on Information & Democracy aims to identify and define concrete policy changes in the regulation or in off market solutions to ensure the sustainability of independent news organizations.





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