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The Journalism Foundation’s project in Stoke-on-Trent

The Journalism Foundation is working in partnership with Pits n Pots, a political website based in Stoke-on-Trent, to help build on the site’s success and boost democratic engagement Read more »

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Tunisia project: We went to teach and ended up learning

Citizen journalism and social media were topics on the agenda at two workshops organised by The Journalism Foundation in collaboration with the Journalism department at City University last month Read more »

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Evgeny Lebedev interviews Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali

Evgeny Lebedev, The Journalism Foundation’s Chairman of the Trustees met with Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali last week to talk about the future of the country Read more »

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

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 »

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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 »

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Unravelling Mohammed Bouazizi, Tunisia’s iconic sacrificial hero

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 »

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Robert Fisk to give the inaugural Journalism Foundation lecture

Robert Fisk, The Independent’s Middle East Correspondent delivered the inaugural Journalism Foundation lecture on Thursday night Read more »

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Hopes and fears for Tunisia’s uncertain future

The Arab world is poised delicately in a position of uncertainty in the wake of the uprisings of 2010 and 2011. Despite the uphill battle, freedom remains an achievable goal Read more »

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Video: TJF’s first project gets off the ground in Tunis

The Journalism Foundation was in Tunis running two two-day workshops under the title ‘Reporting a Democracy’. The course is being conducted by journalism professors from City University and is the first in the country since last January’s revolution Read more »

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Journalists attend The Journalism Foundation media course in Tunisia

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 »

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