25 October 2006

WAN TO HOLD CONFERENCE ON ARAB MEDIA


The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) will be holding a conference in Beirut, Lebanon on 10-11 December 2006 to explore the efforts of Arab media to win their independence and freedom in an environment of continuing repression and harassment.

The conference, entitled 'Press Under Siege', will focus on the physical threats and dangers to media staff, legislative and economic pressures used to control media, censorship and self-censorship, and programmes to support the development of professional and commercially viable news enterprises.

The event is part of a series of WAN 'Media in Danger' conferences held in different regions of the world.

Leading publishers and editors from across the Middle East are being invited to discuss these challenges at the conference, which is being hosted by the Lebanese daily "An-Nahar".

The opening session of 'Press Under Siege' will include the presentation of the first Gebran Tueni Award to an Arab newspaper executive, in honour of the former Lebanese newspaper publisher and long-standing WAN Board Member who was killed in a car-bomb attack in Beirut on 12 December 2005.

For more information, visit: http://www.wan-press.org/tueni_award/articles.php?id=590



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