MEMPSI - Middle East Media and Policy Studies Institute

In one of Turkey’s most closely monitored and widely observed show trials, on April 25th the 13th Istanbul High Criminal Court sentenced businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala to life without parole and seven other defendants to…
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Since Mexico’s first self-described leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), was elected in 2018, journalists have continued to face harassment by politicians and political actors. Today, Mexican journalism is at…
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The Middle East Media and Policy Studies Institute (MEMPSI) has concluded its training course on journalistic writing, providing participants with new knowledge and skills to conduct their journalistic work. The course, delivered by the…
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Last week, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford published its annual Digital News Report. Now in its tenth year, the report is essential to make sense of the…
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The decline of local newspapers isn’t just a problem in the U.S.: A new report looks at how residents of communities in the U.K. get their local news and finds that social media — mainly Facebook groups and pages — is…
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More than five billion people have mobile devices today, with studies suggesting that over 70% of internet users will be accessing the internet solely through their smartphones by 2025. The growing population of…
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In the first of a two-part series, Luba Kassova shares the perspectives of three prominent women journalists in Ukraine on their experiences of the current war. Based on interviews with Nataliya Gumenyuk, a Ukrainian…
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More than 70 Palestinians were wounded in overnight confrontations with Israeli forces at a Jerusalem funeral, Palestinian medics said Tuesday. The unrest unfolded as Palestinians were burying Walid Al Sharif, 23, who died on Saturday…
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This year, the celebrations of the victory in the World War II are being overshadowed by blood and suffering on the territory of Ukraine and destruction of Ukrainian cities. Ghosts of new aggressive, neo-colonial war of the empire, hungry…
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His Majesty King Abdullah underscored the importance of stopping all illegal and provocative Israeli measures in Jerusalem that violate the historical and legal status quo at Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif and push towards further…
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