The war in Gaza has been having a shape-shifting effect on global politics, alongside some of its key references, such as human rights, international law and realpolitik. Global journalism has been eq...
Lina Attalah
Lina Attalah is the publisher of Mada Masr, a Cairo-based news website. She has been a journalist for over a decade, covering primarily Egypt and the region, including the Syrian revolution, the 2013 Iran presidential elections and the Darfur conflict in Sudan. She was previously the chief editor of Egypt Independent, another Egyptian leading English-language news media.
Events IJF 2024
The media landscape today is a very different one from the one in which the media development field was born. The skills and information gap between Global North and Global South is much narrower. Aut...
We witnessed the deadliest war on Gaza in the last quarter of 2023. Today, the enclave is in rubbles and the death toll unimaginable. Journalism has been one the deadliest professions, with more journ...
As the war on journalism rages on, the weapons used to attack journalists and undermine free speech are rapidly expanding and evolving. Increasingly, the law is being weaponised around the globe to co...
What’s new and how are we engaging with it; a question governing the practice of some young Arab media. From covering emerging cultural expression and what it says of its socio-political context, to...
Partnership has become the industry buzzword. But when do partnerships work and why do they fail? And how do we make collaboration the real future of journalism? Organised in association with Coda M...
With political challenges abounding in the Arab region, a number of independent media outlets have risen from the margin with an active progressive political positioning in mind, and an experimental a...
Egypt: how to defend press freedom under political repression. #ijf20talk by Lina Attalah
#ijf20talk by Lina Attalah. Moderated by Declan Walsh.
New, bold music expressions have been emerging out of the neighborhoods of Cairo and Ramallah, but no matching fresh journalism is there to reflect on that. The world is praising the sound of podcasts...
With political challenges abounding in the Arab region, a number of independent media outlets have risen from the margin with an active progressive political positioning in mind, and an experimental a...
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...
With journalism under pressure from major politicians across the world, how can editors and others work to protect journalists? This panel offers a wide range of different perspectives on how pressure...
What does it take to launch a media startup in the Global South that does serious reporting on the subjects that matter? How do these outlets survive in climates that are cracking down on journalism? ...
What are we getting when we read news stories and analysis from the Middle East? Are we getting the truth, half the truth or nothing near the truth? In Egypt there is censorship that makes telling the...
Arts, graphics, new media: defying censorship and opening new doors for Middle East journalism
The Arab world is changing, and so is its media, and its audience. A catchy headline is no longer capable of catching the busy reader’s eyes. Our usual news stories and reports have very little chan...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an organization that defends the right of journalists to report without fear of reprisal. While all journalists face threats, our research indicates that ...
States, companies, algorithms and crowds: the many new faces of web censorship
Censorship is one of the most mainstreamed tools for repression in the digital age. Sometimes it is abuses of copyright regulation, sometimes just a tool for expression control, sometimes the collab...
In Egypt, Syria, Libya and Tunisia, it has become very challenging to be a journalist. Doing your basic job is marred with daily risks. Following the Arab spring and the unprecedented hopes for freedo...
Journalists tend to dislike, distrust and dismiss what they perceive to be the world of theory. For many, academic debates and research often provide critique without solution, written in obscure lan...
The 2011 Tahrir Square protests in Egypt, in addition to ushering in hopes of democracy also opened a window of opportunity in the search for media independence after decades of dictatorship. But the...
Journalism cooperatives - where the journalists, and sometimes the readers, own the business, share the profits, and take part in decision-making - have long been a viable, if niche option for journal...
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