Sahafa Club

The Sahafa Club website offers media professionals information on capacity building and job opportunities, grants, events, professional news, and media research. For example, the "publications" section includes summaries of, and links to, resources such as the "BBC News Style Guide", "The Media Self-Regulation Handbook", "The Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy", "World Press Trends", free novel-writing software, guidance for journalistic ethical dilemmas, and so on. The "useful contacts" and "discussion forums" pages are designed to facilitate dialogue and networking on such topics as the draft of the "Code of Conduct for Media Professionals in Palestine". Sahafa Club also welcomes the submission of events, courses, and programmes from the media departments of Palestinian universities. The Sahafa site features the contact details of point persons at these academic centres, to the end of facilitating networking.

Sahafa provides information about training courses as well as upcoming and past events on press freedom. For example, a posting describing an August 20 2009 workshop in Ramallah provides the gist of the panel discussion organised by the Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) and the Geneva Centre for Democratic Controls. In the presence of a number of Palestinian media and journalists, Nicolas Mason of the Geneva Centre introduced the basic principles on free access to information, and stimulated a discussion between attendees about their experiences of being denied access to information, the challenges of investigative journalism related to corruption in both public and private sectors, the difficulty of finding newspapers willing to publish reports on "taboo issues", etc.

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