Media Cooperation with the Arab World and Iran
IMS works with the Arab world and Iran to enhance the ability of media to serve as a platform for transparency, diversity, pluralism and accountability in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region. IMS programmes support media professionalism and opportunities to build social capital and mutual understanding between Arab and Danish media workers.Archive
- EU condemns Syria's restrictions on freedom of expression and killings of journalists
- Attacks on Palestinian journalists doubled in 2011
- Syrian blogger released
- Debate: Documenting a revolution
- Syrian filmmaker arrested en route to Denmark
- Amid uncertainty in Libya, a surge of new media
- Setback for press freedom in Egypt
- Egypt: Capturing history in the making
- Marked change in Egyptian state media
- Moroccan youth take on social media
- IMS joins call to protect freedom of expression in Egypt
- Egypt: Point of no return?
- Journalism in Tunisia still risky, says Sihem Bensedrine
- Freedom of expression under fire in Arab world
- World Press Freedom Day: Watch out for "Big Brother"
- New international initiative in support of Iranian media
- Social media and democracy in closed societies
- Turkey's divisions: Not about religion, but about class and ideology
- Turkey a future central player in Middle East
- Iran – a twitter revolution?
- Turkey and the Middle East – Journalist Conference, Damascus
- Filming in the world’s happiest country
- Tunisia’s only independent radio station fights back
- One woman, one camera in the streets of Beirut
- Opening doors for media in the Arab world and Iran
- Lebanese, Jordanian and Syrian broadcasters find common ground
- Want to work with media in the Arab world?
- Iranian journalists forced into hiding
- Online reporting fills reporting gap in Iran
- Regional programme in Arab world approved for next two years
- Sharing a wealth of experiences
- Vacancy: Student Assistant
- One logo - two discourses
- Beirut Conference November 2007
- Media in the line of fire amid unrest in Beirut
- Fostering professional collaboration
- Elections Handbook, Arabic, 2005
- Conflict Sensitive Journalism, Arabic
- Tunisia's media landscape, June 2002
Fostering professional collaboration
IMS “Media and Dialogue” focus area aims at enhancing the space for freedom of expression and, through exchanges and collaboration between media professionals, to generate more nuanced media coverage in Denmark as well as the countries of cooperation.
The main program within this area is the regional “Media Cooperation Programme with the Arab World and Iran”. The overall strategy of this program is to establish maximum professional exchange between Arab, Iranian and Danish media actors through partnerships between local, regional and international colleagues that cooperate in order to development innovative media products and to enhance the professional potential of the media.
The media scene
In recent years, the media sector in the Arab world has witnessed dramatic changes. This development was propelled by the emergence of regional tv-satellite channels, as government-controlled media such as public broadcast tv who have traditionally monopolised the news media, suddenly saw regional satellite tv channels carving in on their audiences.
Easy access to low-cost, high-tech equipment for newspaper, radio and TV production combined with a growing confidence among journalists to challenge the prevailing situation has spiralled off an avalanche of new media outlets emerging in the Arab world including several independent newspapers, radio stations and internet-based media.
IMS activities
Within the framework of the "Media Cooperation with the Arab World and Iran", IMS provides professional expertise, know-how, financial support and brokers professional partnerships between Danish and Arab as well as Iranian media actors within a broad range of media professions. The set-up is regional which fosters collaboration between Arab media as well as between Arab media and Danish media practitioners.
Currently nine projects are ongoing covering the following areas:
Twinning
Media monitoring
Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
Documentary Film
Strengthening journalist associations and syndicates
Cooperation between public broadcasters
Radio Cooperation
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