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Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of action against dictatorship and repression, posed an explicit challenge to journalists in state-run and commercial media companies who were more directly subject to government controls. As different interest groups struggle over the country's future, Naomi Sakr considers emerging visions of journalism in Egypt. In this book she charts recent transformations in Egyptian journalism, exploring diverse approaches to converged media and the place of participatory cross-media networks in expanding and developing the country's body of professional journalists. She analyses journalists' initiatives for restructuring publicly-owned media and securing a safe and open environment in which to work.
A National Rethink of News Values
Intensified repression of the media under SCAF
A re-energised news sector
Overview
Lessons from the Push for Professional Autonomy
Diverse approaches to the profession
Individuals vs institutions
Attitudes to social media as tools of news-gathering
Stimuli for a Public Service Ethos
Journalists’ initiatives outside the state-run media
Public ownership scenarios for state-run publications
Support for an independent ERTU
Implications for journalism in the private commercial sector
Nuts and Bolts of a New Deal
Unionisation in a legal limbo
Voluntary codes at company level
Scope for cross-border support
Labour and NGO laws’ impact on free speech
Conclusions
Naomi Sakr is Professor of Media Policy at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, and Director of the CAMRI Arab Media Centre. Her books, all published by I.B.Tauris, include Arab Television Today and Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East and (as editor) Women and Media in the Middle East and Arab Media and Political Renewal.
‘This is an outstanding piece of work: detailed, deeply knowledgeable, authoritative, and with some bravura reporting … which I imagine will become a reference work on the subject.’
David Gardner, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times, and author of Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance
Transforming an Institution Read
Imprint: I.B.Tauris
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Series: Reuters Challenges
Paperback
ISBN: 9781780765891
Publication Date: 30 May 2013
Number of Pages: 128
Height: 216
Width: 134
Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of action against dictatorship and repression, posed an explicit challenge to journalists in state-run and commercial media companies who were more directly subject to government controls. As different interest groups struggle over the country's future, Naomi Sakr considers emerging visions of journalism in Egypt. In this book she charts recent transformations in Egyptian journalism, exploring diverse approaches to converged media and the place of participatory cross-media networks in expanding and developing the country's body of professional journalists. She analyses journalists' initiatives for restructuring publicly-owned media and securing a safe and open environment in which to work.
A National Rethink of News Values
Intensified repression of the media under SCAF
A re-energised news sector
Overview
Lessons from the Push for Professional Autonomy
Diverse approaches to the profession
Individuals vs institutions
Attitudes to social media as tools of news-gathering
Stimuli for a Public Service Ethos
Journalists’ initiatives outside the state-run media
Public ownership scenarios for state-run publications
Support for an independent ERTU
Implications for journalism in the private commercial sector
Nuts and Bolts of a New Deal
Unionisation in a legal limbo
Voluntary codes at company level
Scope for cross-border support
Labour and NGO laws’ impact on free speech
Conclusions
Naomi Sakr is Professor of Media Policy at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, and Director of the CAMRI Arab Media Centre. Her books, all published by I.B.Tauris, include Arab Television Today and Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East and (as editor) Women and Media in the Middle East and Arab Media and Political Renewal.
‘This is an outstanding piece of work: detailed, deeply knowledgeable, authoritative, and with some bravura reporting … which I imagine will become a reference work on the subject.’
David Gardner, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times, and author of Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance
Transforming an Institution Read
Imprint: I.B.Tauris
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Series: Reuters Challenges
PaperbackISBN: 9781780765891
Publication Date: 30 May 2013
Number of Pages: 128
Height: 216
Width: 134