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Posted on March 9, 2011 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Media Development
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Lebanon’s myriad confessional and religious divisions have long been a factor preventing the country from achieving social and political stability. In recent months, political events...

Posted on February 24, 2011 - in Conflict Resolution, Media Development, Youth
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Media and Training Conflict in Somaliland

Mokhtar, a budding media professional, aspires to run his own media outlet one day.  Mokhtar studies at East Africa University in Bosaso with a focus on community development while also...

Journalists Demonstrating for Freedom of Expression

IREX’s efforts to enhance new media literacy among journalists and civil society in Iraq coincides with a wave of demonstrations for democracy across the Arab World that has shown the...

Egyptian protestors at Tahrir Square

At church on the morning of January 28, 2011 the pastor joked that “Thanks to the Egyptian government we will not be interrupted by cell phones.” But on that Friday despite the...

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IREX f.y.i. center training

Sheki, a city of 63,000 two hundred miles north of Baku in the Caucasus mountains, hosts one of IREX’s f.y.i. Community Information Centers that provides provides local residents with IT...

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Iraqi Journalists listen to Egyptian Blogger via Skype

As protests escalated in Cairo and across Egypt the last week of January, with phone and internet soon to be cut off, a Cairo-based blogger changed plans and reverted to his cell phone to...

Posted on January 28, 2011 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Media Development
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With Liberia's first-ever freedom of information law signed in October, IREX is helping citizens and journalists learn how to use it to their advantage.

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Training for Citizen Journalism

IREX recently launched the Azerbaijan New Media Project, supporting professional and citizen journalists and promoting access to and the use of the internet for news, information, and education...

Twitter feed on Moscow Airport Bombing

News coverage in the immediate aftermath of the bombing at Domodedovo airport came not from the television, but from blogs and tweets. Television news was slow to react to the terrorist attack....

Posted on January 19, 2011 - in Media Development
Newspaper salesman in Iraq

The story of a newspaper salesman in Najaf, Iraq.