Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Happy Feast

كل عام وأنتم جيمعا بألف خير بمناسبة عيد الفطر المبارك
Happy Feast for all,
 Best Wishes.  

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Verfication of sources

Make sure that you always use verified sources. 
Here some articles about the issue:

Code of Ethics of Aljazeera

Interesting study of Trusted Media: How to build Trust in the Digital Age

You can download the study here: The Nieman Foundation about the BBC’s Verification Hub

The verification process in the BBC Newsroom in London includes among other factors:

 - Referencing locations against maps and existing images from, in particular, geo-located ones.

 - Working with our colleagues in BBC Arabic and BBC Monitoring to ascertain that accents and language are correct for the location.

- Searching for the original source of the upload/sequences as an indicator of date.

- Examining weather reports and shadows to confirm that the conditions shown fit with the claimed date and time.

- Maintaining lists of previously verified material to act as reference for colleagues covering the stories.

- Checking weaponry, vehicles and licence plates against those known for the given country.

In Tahrir Square

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Multimedia Post




Write a text and put in links to your sources. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's decision to reinstate parliament after its dissolution by the country's highest court could be the beginning of a face-off with the military, which backed the ruling, observers say. Barely one week into office,

Monday, July 9, 2012

Ethics handbook

Good advice for how treating sources you find in the Reuters Handbook of Journalism.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation  published a Ethics Handbook for Journalists in Arabic.