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Not an Arab Spring but an Arab Awakening: Fisk’s inaugural Journalism Foundation lecture

'For me our duty is to report on events impartially from the perspective of those suffering. If we do that then we communicate the tragedy of the Middle East to the rest of the world. If we only rely on governments, official sources or the powerful, we are finished as journalists' Read more »

By Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk delivers the inaugural Journalism Foundation lecture in Tunis (Photo: Morad Assabah)

In pictures: The Journalism Foundation’s project in Tunisia

Last week, The Journalism Foundation ran a media training course for Tunisian journalists entitled 'Reporting in a Democracy'. View our gallery of images from the week Read more »

By Arion McNicoll
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From a long economic winter to an Arab Spring

One of The Journalism Foundation's workshops aimed to familiarise Tunisian students with financial markets and economic data. Charlotte Kan reflects on how students received her course Read more »

By Charlotte Kan
Charlotte Kan prepares for her course in business reporting

Find out more about The Journalism Foundation

The Journalism Foundation is an independent charitable foundation which promotes, develops and sustains free and independent journalism throughout the world. We believe that a free press is an essential instrument of a stable society, and the aim of The Journalism Foundation is to demonstrate how journalism can be a force for good by supporting projects which have a direct and positive effect on people’s lives. Read more »

By Simon Kelner
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News & Features

Journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik killed in Syria

Billboard featuring President Assad and the text 'Allah protects Syria' (Photo: Bertil Videt via Wikipedia)

Media monitor, February 22: Reporter Marie Colvin, who worked for the Sunday Times and the French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed by a rocket in Syria yesterday Read more »

Unravelling Mohammed Bouazizi, Tunisia’s iconic sacrificial hero

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We did not know at the time that this was the start of the Arab Spring, that what was happening would lead to such a seismic upheaval in North Africa and the Middle-East Read more »

Projects

Tunisian media needs reform from the inside

11-Kasbah Demo 25 Jan

Immediately after the 14 January uprising, Tunisian journalists have enjoyed newfound freedom in print and broadcast media, which under President Ben Ali had been tightly controlled Read more »

Journalists attend The Journalism Foundation media course in Tunisia

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The Journalism Foundation went to Tunis to run workshops for the media entitled 'Reporting in a democracy'. The students on the course spoke to us about their hopes and fears for the future Read more »

Who we are and What we do

Simon homepageThe Journalism Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes, develops and sustains free and fair journalism across the world. The Foundation is launching with two initiatives. The first is a partnership with the department of journalism at London’s City University which aims to establish the first practical training courses for journalists in Tunisia. The second sees The Journalism Foundation supporting a grass roots website in an effort to increase engagement in local politics in the British town of Stoke-on-Trent.

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