Friday 23/11/2012 | ||||
Timing | Conrad Ball room | Cleopatra &Aida Training Room | Isis & Nefertiti Training Room | Nile 1 |
10:00 – 17:00 | Arrival and registration |
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11:00 – 12:30 |
| Digital File; Advanced techniques to organize and filter your information using ARIJ digital file Trainers: Ehab Zalaki(Egypt) and Mohammad Amereh(Jordan) | Special 3-day training workshop on the sidelines of the conference for 16 journalists on the Investigative Dashboard (ID) – follow the money trail. Pre-registration is required on a first-come first-serve basis. Participants need to bring with them a letter of commitment to the full course and a clear story idea that they would like to implement after this latest state-of-the-art training.
In this exclusive training, Paul Radu, Executive Director of Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), OCCRP advisor Drew Sullivan, award-winning Swedish investigative journalist Fredrik Laurin and OCCRP senior researcher Miranda Patrucic, will share hundreds of databases, national and international registrars of companies, online and offline court records and many more tools to help journalists turn the gathered data into investigative stories. The basis of most crime networks are simply business and bank accounts set up by the criminal services industry in a manner designed to be as opaque as possible. Using offshore accounts, proxies and seemingly unrelated businesses in many different jurisdictions, they move money around always staying steps ahead of slow moving law enforcement agencies Past OCCRP trainings organized by ARIJ, have enabled Egyptian journalists Ali Zalat and Abdul Rahman Chalabi of completing award-winning investigations into how cronies of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak hid billions of dollars in complex corporate structures that include companies in British Virgin Islands, Egypt, Switzerland, Spain, Panama, Azerbaijan and Romania.
+ The Sarajevo-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is assisting journalists all over the world in untangling the complicated global threat of organized crime and money laundering by giving them the tools and support needed to counter this international menace.
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12:45 – 14:15 |
| Advanced Google search techniques Learn how to harvest the power of Google Search with advanced search techniques that you can use to locate information fast and accurately.
Trainers: Mohammed Amereh and Raed Neshweiat(Jordan)
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| Infographics How graphics can be used to tell your story in print media. The latest trends in using interactive graphics on the web to explain your investigations Trainers: Ehab Zalaki(Egypt) and Thamer Awaisheh(Jordan) |
14:15- 15:30 | Lunch break |
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15:30 - 17:00 |
| Online surveys Using online survey to get the public reaction for your stories. You will learn how to implement and conduct an online survey using web tools
Trainers: Thamer Awaisheh(Jordan) and Ehab Zalaki(Egypt)
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| Tracking people in social networks In this workshop you will learn how to locate people and their whereabouts using the power of social networks
Trainers: Mohammed Mostafa ElSayyed(Egypt) and Raed Neshweiat (Jordan)
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17:00 – 18:00 | Reception hosted by The Swedish Embassy in Cairo and ARIJ |
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18:00- 18:30 | Official Opening and screening of ARIJ film
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18:30- 20:00 | Keynote Speech The Ups and Downs of Media in Transition
Yosri Fouda, the region's pioneering TV investigative journalist, editor and presenter of Egypt's controversial "Last Word" current affairs talk show at Egypt's OnTV, and Deputy ARIJ chairman, shares his insight on the state of Egyptian media in transition and prospects for the spread of accountability-journalism..
Fouda then moderates a discussion with Egypt's most powerful private and public media executives before inviting the audience to question the panel composed of: Gamal Fahmy, Deputy Head, Egyptian Press Syndicate Hazem Ghorab, Chief Editor, TV 25, (private-run, pro-Muslim Brotherhood) Albert Shafik, Chief Editor, OnTV (Independent) Magdy el-Gallad, Chief Editor, Al-Watan Newspaper (Independent) and presenter of CBC TV's Investigative Journalism-based show: "Lazem Nifham" or (We Need to Understand). Yasser Rizk, Editor-in-Chief, Al Masry Al Youm Newspaper (Independent) and former Editor, Akhbar Newspaper (State-owned) Ibrahim ElSayyad, head of news department, Egyptian Television (State-owned). |
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Saturday 24/11/2012 |
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Timing | Conrad Ball room | Cleopatra &Aida Training Room | Isis & Nefertiti Training Room | Nile 1 | Nile 2 | Nile 3 |
9:30-10:45 |
| Data mining (Yahoo pipes)
Learn how to mine data from different online sources using powerful and simple tools. Trainers: Raed Neshweiat(Jordan) and Mohammed Mostafa El Sayyed (Egypt)
| Follow the money workshop: Continued | Roundtable discussion: The future of Investigative Journalism in Arab Universities
ARIJ has trained professors from private and state-run universities in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunis and Egypt on how to use its pioneering manual "Inquiry-Based Story" and other resource materials produced by ARIJEANS in their class rooms to spread the culture of investigative journalism among their students. Most Arab universities teaching under-graduate or graduate journalism and mass communication, do not offer in-depth reporting as a credit course. This session will allow all stakeholders to identify a future strategy that could inspire ARIJ and media academics to work together to spread professional journalism in a region where most governments still control the media scene and have a say in what should be taught at universities. Co-Moderators: Mark Hunter, Co-Author of the ARIJ Manual, and Daoud Kuttab, ARIJ chairman of the board.
| Pre-publication quality control: How do you make sure you do not end up being investigated? Detailed tips and strong anecdotes on how to avoid mistakes in the editing process, including pushing reporters to challenge key assertions and acknowledging what you do not know or what might mitigate the central premise of the story. We'll talk about meticulous fact-checking, footnoting and sharing key findings with targets and sources, and common warning flags.
Trainer: Nils Hanson, Editor of the award-winning current affairs show "Uppdrag Granskning" on Swedish Public Broadcasting, SVT, providing weekly investigative journalism reports to millions of viewers across the Nordic countries. He also sits on the ARIJ board of directors.
| Uncovering election fraud and tracking illegal campaign finance: Learn how to use records and other tools to dig into the background of political candidates, from financial contributions to criminal histories and questionable business interests. Tips on the potential and pitfalls of fact-checking efforts, including how to identify good information from neutral sources. Trainer: Rosemary Armao teaches investigative and international reporting and media law and ethics at the State University of New York at Albany. She is a former executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (www.ire.org)
Moderator: Suhair Jaradat, ARIJ investigative reporter and former member of the Jordanian Press Association board of directors
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10:45-11:00 | Break
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11:00-12:15 |
| Online anonymity
In this session you will learn how to hide your online tracks and create auto destruct anonymous emails that let you send and receive emails without any traces!
Trainers: Raed Nesheiwat and Mohammad Amereh(Jordan)
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| How to build a chronology and timeline for your investigation:
Trainer: Dr. Mark Hunter, one of the main authors of the latest book "The Hidden Scenario: Plotting and Outlining Your Investigation", presents the latest tips on making investigative reporters' story telling more fun.
| Global Award-Winning Print and TV Investigations:
Swedish TV Journalists Bo-Goran Bodin and Daniel Ohman share their insight into how they exposed plans by Swedish Defense Research Agency to help Saudi Arabia build "Simoom" Project, a secret advanced arms factory for anti-tank missiles. Swedish Investigative Journalist and television producer Fredrik Laurin talks about how he and a group of OCCRP journalists produced an award-wining investigation exposing how Swedish Telecom Teliasonera helped Uzbekistan's autocratic government use mobile services to eavesdrop on political dissidents in one of the world's last remaining dictatorship.
Tom Heinemann, independent award-wining Danish journalist and filmmaker, talks about his latest controversial documentary "The Micro Debt", broadcast in more than 14 countries. The documentary reveals the hard-hitting truth behind many micro loans, a system which has been hailed worldwide as part of the answer to helping millions escape poverty.
Moderator: Pia Thordsen, Danish Television Reporter, ARIJ Board member and senior ARIJ media trainer.
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12:15-12:30 | Break | |||||
12:30-14:00 | Investigating The Powerful; Media’s Role
Tim Sebastian, award-winning international television journalist, former presenter of BBC's HardTalk, current chairman of The New Arab Debates and, ARIJ board member, talks about growing intolerance among citizens of the world at a time when the internet revolution and social media should have turned the globe into a small village. Sebastian insists that journalists have "the right to offend" when performing their job.
Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Jordan: Hanan Khandakji went undercover to expose physical, verbal and sexual abuse of handicapped children in some of Jordan's private care centers . Half way through her work, she was joined by Tony Stark, Executive Producer for Moonstone Films, a London-based independent production company that specializes in making high quality broadcast documentaries and current affairs programmes. Working with his production team and using hidden cameras, they produced "Behind the Walls of Silence" that was shown on BBC Arabic. Shocked by what he saw, King Abdullah of Jordan paid surprise visits to several of these centers and asked a commission to investigate the abuses and recommend policy changes to stop a climate where staff and owners of these homes can get away with no penalty. She will talk about lessons learnt and will be joined by Tony Stark and Marc Perkins, "Documentaries" Editor, BBC Arabic, who will outline what international broadcasters are looking for when undertaking joint productions with ARIJ journalists.
Moderator: Rana Sabbagh, ARIJ executive director
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14:00- 15:30 | Lunch | |||||
15:30 -16:45 |
| Multimedia - Basic Video editing
In this session you will learn the basics of recording and editing videos for your stories.
Trainers: Thamer Awaisheh and Mohammad Amereh(Jordan)
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| ARIJ showcases best investigations in Iraq, including those pursued by the NIRIJ network, an investigative reporting group made up of mostly former ARIJ fellows:
Ammar Saleh, freelance journalist in Iraq's southern port city of Basra, investigated an increase in the number of reported cancer cases from remains of depleted uranium found in weapons used by Allied Forces during the 1991 Gulf War.
Jassem Dakhel, freelance journalist in Iraq's southern port city of Basra, shows how an indifferent government and lack of support from the international community has hampered effort to clear 5,000 mine-fields in the country's south, threatening the lives of residents.
Maiada Daood, freelance award-winning journalist Maiada Daood, based in Baghdad, documented how al-Qaeda and other militant groups use women and children in activities to support terror-related missions.
Freelance award-winning journalist Dlovan Barwari documented how al-Qaeda and other militant groups extort over $5 million from the private sector, ordinary citizens and some government departments in the northern city of Mosel.
Moderator: Mohammad Fadel, ARIJ coach in Bahrain.
| The web tools that will make you a better online journalist. Practical workshop using tools like Timetoast to create timelines, and Storify to create news. Trainer: Stale DeLange Kofoed(Norway) | Storyboarding your ideas for TV investigations:
Soren Klovberg, one of Denmark's award-winning documentary producers, who is helping ARIJ set up TV investigative units in the region, leads a group discussion on how to find high-impact yet simple watchdog stories, flesh them out and develop strategies to get them filmed. He is joined by top-management executives from three Arab television stations who have set up investigative units with support from ARIJ and want to share their experiences, success stories and survival tips with eager Arab colleagues. He is joined by Khaled Morsi, head of the Investigative Reporting Unit at AnNahar TV (Egypt) Riad Kobeisi, head of Investigative Reporting Unit at Al Jadeed (Lebanon) Bashar Rabadi, executive director at Ro'ya TV (Jordan)
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16:45-16:50 |
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16:50 – 18:00 |
| Infographics How graphics can be used to tell your story in print media. The latest trends in using interactive graphics on the web to explain your investigations.
Trainers: Ehab Zalaky and Mohammed Mostafa El Sayyed(Egypt)
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| Legitimate business investigations: Learn how to choose great business story ideas that are of relevance to the public and choose simple writing techniques to relay your findings Trainer: Dr. Mark Hunter
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| ARIJ showcases best investigations exposing corruption:
Abdul-Rahman Chalabi from Al-Watan Newspaper exposes how former Egyptian President spent $3 billion, including USAID funds, to buy a fleet of aircraft often used by family members on private business and shopping trips. In another investigation, he documents how former first lady, Suzanne Mubarak, transferred over three billion Egyptian pounds to Swiss banks after the downfall of her husband despite a post-revolution ban on her assets.
Imad Rawashdeh, Jordanian freelance journalist and ARIJ editor, documented how a two-year rapid bus transit system to ease traffic congestion in the capital Amman and to provide more reliable options to desperate commuters, has been frozen due to change in governments and policies.
Majdoleen Allan and Munira Shatti from Radio Al Balad Investigative Reporting Unit worked for months to show how EU-funded projects meant to alleviate the poverty of residents in the Jordan Valley never saw the light due to weak bilateral monitoring and assessment rules. Millions of dollars have been wasted while residents of the area are getting poorer by the day.
Riad Kobeisi, head of Al-Jadeed TV's Investigative Reporting Unit, shares his investigation into corruption plaguing Beirut's port and stripping the state of millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Mohammad Sayyed Taha from Al Masry Al Youm Newspaper exposed how the Egyptian Stock Market experienced unusually high demand on GDRs (Global Deposit Receipts) for dual-listed stocks in Egypt and the United Kingdom, allowing Egyptian businessmen to transfer over 4.6 billion Egyptian pounds during the four months that followed the start of the revolution in early 2011.
Moderator: Jomana Ghneimat, Chief Editor, Al Ghad Newspaper in Jordan |
Sunday 25/11/2012 | ||||||
Timing | Conrad Ball room | Cleopatra &Aida Training Room | Isis & Nefertiti | Nile 1 | Nile 2 | Nile 3 |
9:30-10:45 |
| Advanced Google Search techniques
Learn how to harvest the power of Google Search with advanced search techniques that you can use to locate information fast and accurately.
Trainers: Thamer Awaisheh and Raed Neshiewat (Jordan)
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| Roundtable discussion: Managers: Making Investigative commitment and building the team
ARIJ has helped nine media organizations in Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon and Egypt, set up in-house investigative journalism units, some of which have and are producing cutting-edge investigations that have exposed culprits and forced wrong-doers to rectify the situation. At this round-table, our partners, ARIJ board members and coaches, discuss administrative, political and professional challenges restricting in-depth reporting in Arab news rooms and exchange views on how to go about transforming their news operation. Nils Hanson, Editor of the award-winning current affairs show "Uppdrag Granskning" on Swedish Public Broadcasting, SVT, providing weekly investigative journalism reports, will talk about how to pursue watchdog stories in the face of declining profits, heavy competition, and competing news priorities. Dr. Mark Hunter, Co-Author of the ARIJ Manual, will talk about successful business models for investigative journalism units and how to use in-depth reporting to boost credibility, circulation and profit.
Participants: Mr. Zied Kreishan, Editor, Le Maghreb Daily (Independent, Tunis), Emed Qtata, Chief Editor, Radio Shamsfm (Independent Tunis); Jomana Ghneimat, Chief Editor, Al Ghad Newspaper (Independent, Jordan), Majdoleen Allan, Editor, Radio Al Balad Investigative Reporting Unit (Independent, Jordan), Bashar Rabadi, executive director at Ro'ya TV (Independent, Jordan), Alaa Ghatrifi, Deputy Editor, Al-Watan Newspaper (Independent, Egypt), Ahmad Ragab, Head of Investigative Reporting Unit at Al Masry Al Youm (Independent, Egypt), Khaled Morsi, Head of Investigative Reporting Unit at AnNahar TV (Independent, Egypt), Dimitri Khodr, Editor, Al Jadeed TV (Independent, Lebanon) and Hazem Ameen and Bissan El Cheikh, Co-Editors at the Investigative Reporting Project at Al Hayat Newspaper).
Moderator: Rana Sabbagh, ARIJ Executive Director |
| Freedom of information laws, ethics and integrity:
The future of investigative journalism largely depends on a legally-enabling environment, more so in countries where journalists still lead daily struggles in search for written proof and documentation to support their stories. Get acquainted with the pros and cons of freedom to access information laws in Jordan, Tunisia and Yemen, the only three Arab states to have endorsed such a law. And learn more about Egypt's proposed law that could help professionalize the work of The Fourth Estate.
Panelists: Veteran media lawyer Mohammad Qteisahat (Jordan); Kheireddine Ben Soltane (Tunisia), media lawyer and member of the committee that drafted the FoI law; Abdulmoez Dabwan, Yemeni member of parliament and Rapporteur of the Parliamentary committee on Press and Culture; and Ragaie El Marghany (Egypt), who helped draft the proposed FoI law. Moderator: Yasser Abdel Aziz, (Egypt), media consultant and trainer in the Middle East and North Africa.
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10:45-11:00 | Break | |||||
11:00-12:15 |
| Online anonymity In this session you will learn how to hide your online tracks and create auto destruct anonymous emails that let you send and receive emails without any traces!
Trainers: Mohammad Amereh and Raed Neshiewat(Jordan)
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| The art of source development: Finding, developing and maintaining good sources are crucial for an investigative reporter. Learn how to find sources, how to cross check what they say, and how to convince them to talk to investigative journalists.
Trainers: Rosemary Armao and Marc Perkins. Armao teaches investigative and international reporting and media law and ethics at the State University of New York at Albany. She is a former executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editor. Perkins is "Documentaries" Editor, BBC Arabic.
Moderator: Benaz Batrawi, ARIJ coach in Ramallah and Director of the MediaNet office working in media consultation, training, research, and production
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| ARIJ showcases best investigations in Egypt:
Marwa Abdullah and Abdul-Baset Younes from AnNahar TV filmed Mafias hoarding diesel and petrol, abusing both weak consumer laws and lackluster government control, to sell this vital commodity in the black market.
Rania Fazaa from Youm7 Newspaper worked for months to uncover the theft of black sand rich with minerals and radioactive chemicals from Barlas area in the Nile Delta, endangering the seaside city's eco-system and threatening residential properties with drowning because of holes created in the sand bed which get filled with water.
Wael Mamdouh from Al Masry Al Youm went undercover for weeks to document how makeshift mechanical workshops turned to production of weapons and bullets to meet rising demand for security protection from lawlessness after the fall of Mubarak.
Award-winning journalists Dareen Farghali and Maha Bahnasawi from the Investigative Reporting Unit at Al-Watan Newspaper documented the plight of impoverished Egyptian parents who can do nothing to save their pre-mature born babies due to a severe shortage in incubators and neo-natal health care at public hospitals.
Moderator: Yehia Ghanem, ARIJ coach in Egypt, and chairman of the board of al-Wadi Media Foundation, Egypt's oldest state-run media publication company
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12:30-14:00 | Best practices in Trauma Reporting - Basic Survival Tools:
Gavin Rees, Director of The Dart Center in Europe -- part of The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma based at Columbia University in New York -- talks about the pioneering program to encourage innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy. He will share tips on how to cover murder, sexual assault, torture, war, terrorism, arson, natural disasters and domestic violence while dealing with the considerable psychological distress of victims, survivors, their loved ones, as well as the journalists who tell their stories. He will conclude by sharing the Center's practical guide for writing about trauma using twelve years of Dart Award winners as models of journalistic excellence.
Moderator: Anders Jerichow, ARIJ board of directors and senior editor at Denmark's leading newspaper "Politiken".
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14:00- 15:30 | Lunch | |||||
15:30 -16:45 |
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| ARIJ showcases best investigations in Jordan, Ramallah and The Gaza Strip
Palestinian freelance journalists Aziza Nofal and Saeed Abi Muallah join Jordan's Zayed Dakheel (AlGhad newspaper), to expose how hundreds of Palestinians living in the West Bank and holding Jordanian nationality, commit crimes and flee to Jordan abusing legal loopholes in an Arab Treaty regulating the exchange of criminals.
Hassan Dohan, head of the Al Hayat Al Jadida bureau in Gaza, talks about his year-long investigation into human tragedies resulting from shortage of incubators and vaccines needed to ensure the survival of neo-natal infants born in this teeming strip.
Hoda Baroud, Gaza-based freelance journalist, searched for months to tell the stories of women who were beaten and raped by witch doctors in a growing phenomenon due to weak laws and ignorance.
Mosab Al-Shawabkeh, a journalist from Radio Al-Balad's Investigative Reporting Unit, went undercover to expose networks using e-technologies to sell questions and answers to hundreds of Jordanian students sitting for the "Tawjihi" - the nation's most important end of high-school exam.
Taghreed Doghmi, from Radio Al Balad Investigative Reporting Unit, documented horrifying tales of Jordanian women who are often forced to marry their rapists to avoid being killed by their families or to help the rapists escape jail terms. Moderator: Dr. Abdullah El Saafin, ARIJ coach and international media trainer |
| Personal safety of journalists doing investigations: Internationally-certified trainers Abeer Saadi (Egypt) and Ziyed Dabbar (Tunisia) show journalists how to plan ahead for their investigative mission to ensure their safety and security while digging out the dirt and getting close to culprits. Moderator: Ghassan Chehabi, ARIJ coach in Bahrain.
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16:50– 18:00 |
| Encrypting files, drivers and computers Secure your laptop, computer, and files so no one can break in and know what you have been up to! Learn how to use the most secure encryption that even the FBI cannot break!
Trainers: Mohammad Mostafa El Sayyed(Egypt) and Mohammad Amereh(Jordan)
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| The web tools that will make you a better online journalist. Practical workshop using tools like Time toast to create timelines, and Storify to curate news.
Trainer: Stale DeLange Kofoed(Norway) |
| ARIJ showcases best investigations in Lebanon, Tunisia, Syria and Yemen: Carole Kerbaj, a freelance journalist, documented the economic and political dynamics between militants in two rival enclaves in northern Lebanon. She revealed how former warlords and young school drop outs are being used to feed the ongoing conflict since 2008.
Hanene Zbiss, working for Tunis's French-language newspaper Realites, showed how resistant germs are spreading at local hospitals and killing patients.
Ali Salem, correspondent for Al-Hayat newspaper in Yemen, pursued smugglers of African refugees from Yemen to Saudi Arabia and documented human rights abuse.
Mohammad Bassiki, working for the weekly-magazine Al Iqtissadi, braved unrest plaguing his country to document how international mafias were smuggling rare eagles out of Syria, manipulating weak import-export legislation and stripping the treasury of tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
Moderator: Bissan El-Cheikh, ARIJ coach, Lebanon, and Senior editor for Youth Supplement at Al-Hayat newspaper
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18:15 – 18:45 | Closing session: The Way Forward:
What ARIJ stakeholders need to do to ensure sustainability investigative journalism? And what professional training and other support can ARIJ give?
Speakers;
Daoud Kuttab, ARIJ chairman of the board Representative from IMS – International Media Support Representative from Sida – The Swedish International Development Agency Representative from FOSI – Foundation for Open Societies Moderator: Rana Sabbagh, ARIJ Executive Director
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20:00 | ARIJ award ceremony 2012 Announcing results along with screening short film of the winning investigations Venue to be decided
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