Professors Roundtable: Launching ARIJ Manual for a 3-hour credit course

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ARIJ has trained over 60 professors from private and public universities in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Iraq and Palestine on how to use its pioneering manual “Story-based Inquiry “, by Dr. Mark Hunter et al., in a bid to spread the culture of “accountability journalism” in media classes. At this session, Dr. Hunter will unveil ARIJ’s forthcoming manual on teaching “investigative journalism 101” – a three-hour credit course for undergraduate media and journalism students developed over the past four months by a group of researchers, lawyers and investigative journalists at the request of so many media academics who have been inspired by the work on ARIJ.

First Plenary: “Media Under Attack”

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Turkey is hardly a media paradise. In terms of imprisonment of journalists, Turkey appears the most repressive country in the world. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made it clear that he does not like “watchdog” journalism. Powerful media owners are dismissing their sharpest, most popular journalists to appease government leaders at the expense of their own readers under a toxic cycle of state-run pressure that is depriving the Turkish public of the intellectual diversity and the right to be informed. This pressure is forcing a growing number of journalists to operate in a climate of fear.

Daoud Kuttab / Jordan – Conference 2013

Professors Roundtable: Launching ARIJ Manual for a 3-hour credit course

First Plenary: “Media Under Attack”