Catalan, Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian journalists analyze migration coverage in Barcelona
22 October 2018 | Press release
The IEMed and the APEC will organize the seminar “New approaches to the coverage of migration” in Barcelona on Friday, October 26.
The objective is to analyze the challenges of journalism when dealing with migrations in the western Mediterranean and promote links between journalists from both shores.
Journalists from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and the Catalan media will participate next week in Barcelona in a seminar to analyze how migrations are reported and propose how they can improve or innovate their news coverage.
The seminar will take place on Friday, October 26 in the morning, starting at 9:30 a.m., at the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), which co-organizes the meeting with the Associació de Periodistas Europeus de Catalunya (APEC), and with the collaboration of the “la Caixa” Foundation and the Col·legi de Periodistas de Catalunya.
The event will feature, among others, the Moroccan journalists Omar Radi (contributor to independent media such as TelQuel, Lakome or Le Desk) and Hassan Bentaleb (Libération Maroc journalist specializing in migrations), Tunisian Monia Ben Hamadi (director of Inkyfada.com), the Algerian Leïla Beratto (correspondent in Algeria for RFI and promoter of the Terminus Algérie project on migration), Cristina Mas (International editor of the newspaper ARA), Carles Solà (journalist for Televisió de Catalunya), Lurdes Vidal (co-director of the Islamophobia Observatory in the Media) and Oriol Puig (journalist specialized in migration and doctor in Social Anthropology).
The meeting constitutes the 1st edition of the Connecting Med ’Journalists program. Getting the Full Story, a joint initiative of the IEMed and APEC that was born with the desire to schedule periodic meetings between media professionals to jointly analyze the challenges of journalism in the region, issue proposals for an improvement in professional practice and at the same time promote links between journalists from both sides of the Mediterranean.