It is International Women’s Day and MedMedia* is marking the occasion with two special events in Algeria and Lebanon. Held in Algiers yesterday with the support of the EU Delegation and local partners El Watan, DK news and the Human Development Network (HDN), the first explored ways to strengthen women’s voice in Algerian media. Gathering […]
Press release 21/12/2017 MedMedia concluded this week a series of consultations held in Vienna and Paris, to increase regional and international support for the Declaration and the Special Mechanism for Media Freedom in the Arab World. Backed by the EU-funded MedMedia programme, the initiative builds on strong partnerships between media stakeholders, national human rights’ institutions […]
Press release 13/12/2017 The EU-funded MedMedia programme published today a key report on journalists’ unions in the Southern Mediterranean region. The report, which covers nine countries, examines journalists’ unions’ role in supporting journalists and media. It focuses on pivotal issues, including mandate, membership and governance, trade-union action, advocacy, and opportunities for international cooperation. “Journalists’ unions […]
Press release 24/11/2017 MedMedia launched last week a new round of events to increase regional and international support for the Regional Declaration for Media Freedom in the Arab World and its Special Mechanism. Backed by the EU-funded MedMedia programme, the initiative builds on strong partnerships between media stakeholders, human rights’ organisations and governments in the […]
Press release 8 November 2017 A regional workshop organised by the EU-funded MedMedia programme in Tunis last week gathered delegates from nine public service broadcasters in the Southern Mediterranean, to discuss in-house training strategies. Part of MedMedia’s peer-to-peer programme, the event was organised on 2-3 November in cooperation with the Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual […]
Press release 22.09.207 Media pluralism, monitoring of Lebanon’s 2018 general election and the country’s 2020 broadcasting digital transition, were at the heart of a conference held in Beirut last week. Organised on 18 September by the Conseil national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Lebanon’s broadcasting regulator, with the support of the EU-funded MedMedia programme, the conference gathered […]
Press release 30.08.2017 Effective ways to counter hate speech in the media through regulation and editorial practices were at the heart of a meeting held in Tunis last week. Organised by MedMedia, an-EU funded regional programme, the event took place on 24 and 25 August and gathered 20 media participants and experts from the Maghreb […]
Press release 14.07.2017 MedMedia’s online mapping tool has reached its 100 mark milestone last week. Launched just over a year ago by MedMedia, an EU-funded programme, the database is dedicated to mapping media development initiatives in partner countries across the Southern Mediterranean. It offers information on ongoing and implemented media programmes, in a bid to […]
Press release 31 May 2017 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 […]
Press release 17 May 2017 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 […]
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 […]