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Google News Initiative Grants in Africa and the Middle East Yield Mixed Results
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A study found many Google News Initiative projects in Middle East and Africa struggle to become more than makeshift versions of the original idea.
Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/middle-east/)
A study found many Google News Initiative projects in Middle East and Africa struggle to become more than makeshift versions of the original idea.
Daraj co-founder Diana Moukalled discusses the outlet’s origins in Lebanon, its impact, its funding, and reporting on women’s rights and corruption across the Middle East.
More than 115 countries worldwide have laws that require officials to turn over public records. Of course, even in countries that have no laws it never hurts to ask.
স্যালি হেইডেন অডিও রেকর্ডের জন্য মোবাইল ফোনকে বিশ্বাস করেন না। তিনি ব্যবহার করেন আলাদা ডিভাইস। তিনি শুধু তথ্য নয়, গোটা লেখাকেই গুছিয়ে আনেন একটি সফটওয়্যার ব্যবহার করে। আর সোর্সদের সাথে নিরাপদ যোগাযোগের অ্যাপ তো আছেই। চলুন পরিচিত হই, তার প্রিয় টুলগুলোর সাথে।
ستجدون في هذه الصفحة منصة مصادر خاصة بالصحافة الاستقصائية باللغة العربية، لتكون دليلا ومرجعا للصحافيين العرب الراغبين بخوض هذا النوع من الصحافة، القائم على امتلاك الصحافي لمهارات متخصصة في مجالات البحث، والتقصي، والوصول الى المصادر المتصلة بالقصة، وتدقيق الحقائق قبل نشرها.
After 14 years at the helm of the Arab world’s leading network of investigative journalists, Rana Sabbagh reflects on what she’s learned and offers advice to investigative reporters, in a farewell letter to Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism.
Moving Walls 20 is a documentary photography exhibition on human rights, produced by the Open Society Foundations (OSF). The current exhibit highlights societies undergoing transition in China and the Middle East, and people suffering from repressive regimes and injustice in North Korea, Sierra Leone, and Ukraine.
The majority of the Arab press — whether available in print or online — depends largely for their news on what national or international press agencies produce. The only real investment is placed in supporting columnists whose opinions and analysis reflect the particular editorial line of the publisher and the owners of that outlet. This disproportionate support for columnists rather than reporters can best be seen when you ask any follower of Arab media to name a particular news reporter or investigative journalist connected with a particular journal.
A growing cadre of journalists is pursing assertive reporting on the deterioration that they see and experience daily, and which represents, for many of them, a more acute threat than the battles over radical Islam that dominate American coverage of the region.
More than 115 countries worldwide have laws that require officials to turn over public records. Variously called freedom of information, access to information, right to information and right to know laws, they all can help journalists access public records. We’ve lined up GIJN’s Complete Global Guide to Freedom of Information to help you navigate the terrain.