Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism
By Daoud Kuttab Jordan’s registered media outlets will be soon welcoming a new group: news websites.
The Jordanian public has been mesmerized these past weeks with the casino case debate in parliament, in which senior government officials have been charged with a variety of administrative errors and crimes. The 70-page detailed report faults 33 individuals, including the prime minister, with wrongdoing. But while the parliament and country have been focused on the actions…
By Daoud Kuttab I was caught off guard when the call came from the Prime Ministry. The governmental committee set up to design a strategic media plan wanted to hear my opinion. Along with Nidal Mansour, from the Centre for Defending the Freedom of Journalists, and Rana Sabbagh, from Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalists, we…
I spent five working days in the Qatari capital of Doha teaching a course on writing opinions behalf of the International Center for Journalists. Forty Qataris between journalists and public servants involved in media issues attended in two repeated sessions held at the Qatar News Agency with twenty in either morning or afternoon session.
The challenge wasn’t easy. Werner D’Inka, a member of the editorial board of one of Germany’s most prestigious newspapers, Frankfurt’s Allgemeine Zeitung, emphatically proclaimed, “We don’t deal with citizen journalism and we see no reason why we should.” The statement followed two key note addresses in favor of citizen journalism by Solan Larsen, managing editor…
By Daoud Kuttab The decision by the Court of Cassation to classify websites as “publications” and thus apply the Press and Publications Law to them is troubling. Unlike other laws that criminalise press violations, Jordan’s Press and Publications Law only allows civilian punishment, meaning that electronic media violators might be fined, but not jailed. But…
The following appeared in the Jordan Times Radio Balad experience highlighted in Paris AMMAN (JT) – The experience of a Jordanian radio station was highlighted in an international meeting at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris last week titled “Voice and Empowerment through Community Media”. Attendees in an international UNESCO conference co-sponsored by AMARC, the world…
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This is the full version of the article ( an edited version appeared in the Jordan Times) The end of censorship? Daoud Kuttab, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 4, 2007 Quietly and without any fanfare, the decades-old censorship laws on the books in Jordan were scrapped earlier this month. The official gazette published an amendment to…
Statement issued at the end of the Middle East and North Africa day during the Amarc9 conference held in Amman 11 November 2006 We the participants of the Amarc9 conference held in the Jordanian capital Amman on Saturday November 11, 2006 request the following