Director of Tunisia's Institute de Presse et des Sciences de L'Information (IPSI) at Manouba University, Tunisia's leading training institute for up-coming journalists, will showcase the Arab world's first two-year master's degree program in investigative journalism launched at IPSI in partnership with the University of Albany in Oct. 2013. The practical program focuses primarily on investigative techniques, data collection and sourcing, and law.
| 15:30 - 17:00 | SUN Room : Professors Roundtable: Launching ARIJ Manual for a 3-hour credit courseARIJ 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. Moderators
Daoud Kuttab / JordanDaoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and media activists. He is the former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Daoud Kuttab is currently the director general of Community Media Network (CMN) a not for profit media organisation dedicated to advancing independent media in the Arab region. CMN is registered in Jordan and Palestine and administers Radio al Balad in Amman, and www.ammannet.net Born in Jerusalem in 1955, Kuttab studied in the United States and has been working in journalism ever since 1980. He began his journalism career working in the Palestinian print media (Al-Fajr, Al-Quds and Asennara) as well as the audio visual field (Documentary producer). He established and presided over the Jerusalem Film Institute in the 90s. In 1995 he helped establish the Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) a censorship free Arab web site www.amin.org. He established and has headed between 1996 until 2007 the Institute of Modern Media at Al-Quds University. In 1997 he partially moved to Amman (because of family tragedy and remarriage) and in 2000 established the Arab world's first internet radio station AmmanNet (www.ammannet.net). Mr. Kuttab is active in media freedom efforts in the Middle East. He is a regular columnist for the Jordan Times, The Jerusalem Post and the Daily Star in Lebanon. He has co-produced a number of award winning documentaries and children's television programs. His op-ed columns have appeared in the NY Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angles Times, The Daily Telegraph and Shimbum Daily in Tokyo. He has received a number of international awards among them the CPJ Freedom of Expression Award, the IPI World Press Freedom Hero, PEN Club USA Writing Freedom Award, the Leipzeg Courage in Freedom Award and the Next Foundation (UK) Peace through Media Award. He is a regular columnist for the Huffington Post, Palestine News Network, Al Arrabiya.Net and the Jordan Times. Speakers
Dr. Tawfic Yacoub / TunisiaDirector of Tunisia's Institute de Presse et des Sciences de L'Information (IPSI) at Manouba University, Tunisia's leading training institute for up-coming journalists, will showcase the Arab world's first two-year master's degree program in investigative journalism launched at IPSI in partnership with the University of Albany in Oct. 2013. The practical program focuses primarily on investigative techniques, data collection and sourcing, and law.
Dr. YasmineDabbous / lebanonYasmine Dabbous is an assistant professor of journalism and media studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU), Communication Arts department and the head of the Institute for Media Training and Research. Dabbous got her PhD in Mass Communication and Public Affairs from Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication in 2010 and her MS in Communication Studies from Boston University. She is interested in three areas of research: the cultural history of press criticism, the interaction of media and society in Lebanon, and gender communication both in the US and Lebanon. Before working on her PhD, Dabbous worked as a PR consultant for Hill & Knowlton in Riyadh and Beirut and wrote for a number of magazines across the region. |
