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Journalists' Unions in the Southern Mediterranean Region: State of Play and Perspectives

Monir Zaarour, Neji Bghouri
MedMedia (2017), 23 pp.
"Journalists’ unions are key media supporting organisations and this report covers the pivotal role they play in countries of the Southern Mediterranean region. This report aspires to be a light reading, not only for union activists and media professionals, but also for journalists and citizens, a ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.
"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas ... more
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Guidebook: Conflict Sensitive Journalism for Yemeni Journalists

Yassin Al-Zikri
Taiz, Republic of Yemen: Studies & Economic Media Center (SEMC); International Media Support (IMS) (2017), 140 pp.
"This book, the first of its kind ever in Yemen, serves as a guide for Yemeni media professionals as well as a highly significant document that will go a long way in boosting their reporting skills in such a way that meets the standards of conflict sensitive journalism. It is also a compendium on a ... more
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European Foreign Conflict Reporting: A Comparative Analysis of Public News Providers

Emma Heywood
London; New York: Routledge (2017), 174 pp.
"This book explores the state of European foreign conflict reporting by public-sector broadcasters, post-Cold war and post-9/11. It compares the values of three television news providers from differing public systems: BBC’s News at 10, Russia’s Vremya and France 2’s 20 Heures. The book examine ... more
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Médias et diversité au Proche-Orient: Etude de la couverture médiatique de la diversité dans les médias libanais, syrienes et irakiens

Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation; Fondation Adyan; CFI (2017), 46 pp.
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Les représentations identitaires dans les journaux télévisés au Liban

Aline Korban
Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 210 pp.
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Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-First Century
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Zahera Harb (ed.)
London; New York: Tauris (2017), xii, 226 pp.
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Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2017), vi, 213 pp.
"In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negoti ... more
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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic

Annabelle Sreberny, Massoumeh Torfeh (eds.)
London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive ... more
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Fatwa on Satellite TV and the Development of Islamic Religious Discourse

Noureddine Miladi, Saleh Karim, Mahroof Athambawa
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 10, issue 2 (2017), pp. 129-152
"Satellite TV and the Internet revolutions have reinvigorated religious discourse in public spaces. Across the world, religious TV channels and Internet religious websites have taken up the roles of traditional religious spaces such as churches, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras and temples. Islamic re ... more
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Model Course on Safety of Journalists: A Guide for Journalism Teachers in the Arab States

Michael Foley, Clare Arthurs, Magda Abu-Fadil
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 172 pp.
"Safety of Journalists: A Model Course for the Arab States is a significant instalment in our UNESCO Series on Journalism Education. Developed in partnership with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the publication responds to the difficult situation of many journalists working in the ... more
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Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014

Emma Heywood
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 211-220
"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a ... more
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Media Policy in Times of Transition: Tunisia's Bumpy Road to Democracy

Carola Richter
Publizistik, volume 62, issue 3 (2017), pp. 325-337
"Media freedom is still a fragile compromise in Tunisia and institutions and their rules are not as sustainable as one might wish for. The success of the transition process ultimately depends on the commitment of all elites to devote themselves to holding on to democracy. As could be observed in sev ... more
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Data Journalism in the Arab World: Survey Results

Jihad Al Shebeni (coord.)
Cairo: Arab Data Journalists' Network (2017), 20 pp.
"The survey aims to measure how much Arab data journalists use data in their stories and how easy or difficult it is for them to get data from official sources, and to be conducted again in the future for a deeper and wider look at the situation." (Page 3)
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Media Interventions as Humanitarian Action

Shawn Powers
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 416-427
"This chapter aims to introduce the concept of an information intervention as an example of humanitarian action. Typically associated negatively with government efforts to incite conflict and tension, two case studies are explored-Haiti and Syria-to better understand how state-led information interv ... more
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Negotiating Journalism: Core Values and Cultural Diversities

Elsebeth Frey, Mofizur Rhaman, Hamida El Bour (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 170 pp.
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Media Ownership Monitor Morocco

Reporters Without Borders; Le Desk (2017), 618 pp.
"Nine of the 36 media companies involved in Morocco’s most influential media are directly linked to the state, the government or the royal family. Four of them – SOREAD, SNRT, EcoMedias and Horizon Press – are among the most important media companies in terms of turnover and show the potential ... more
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La (re-)professionnalisation du journalisme tunisien dans la période transitionnelle: Le rôle des acteurs extranationaux

Olivier Koch
In: La circulation des productions culturelles: cinémas, informations et séries télévisées dans les mondes arabes et musulmans
Dominique Marchetti (dir.)
Rabat: Centre Jacques-Berque (2017), ?? pp.
"La nature de l’enseignement et l’évaluation de la pertinence du choix des formateurs sont également sujettes à caution. En effet, 54,3 % des participants estiment que les contenus dispensés ne sont pas adaptés au contexte national. D’une certaine manière, ceci est confirmé par les form ... more
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Medien - Frauen - Perspektiven

Weltzeit (Deutsche Welle), issue 3 (2017), pp. 10-29
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The Role of Media in Public Advocacy and Countering Violent Extremism

Nadia Sraieb-Koepp
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 261-267
"Nadia Sraieb-Koepp shares her experiences designing participatory media campaigns and visual strategies that helped facilitate the democratic transition in Tunisia in 2011. She offers her thoughts about the need for inclusive social media strategies designed to counter recruitment messages targetin ... more