On Thursday, 10 October 2019, Al-Najah Media Center held a workshop on the role of modern media in promoting freedoms, in Nablus, in partnership with the Press House – Palestine, which aimed to promote the independent youth media discourse.
The workshop was lectured by Bashar Daraghmeh, the Director of News Department at Media Center, which targeted 20 students from the Faculty of Information at Al-Najah National University.
Daraghmeh explained the factors that control the websites and social media platforms that formulate their functional framework that determines the nature of the sector itself, asking questions related to the ethics of the journalistic work, reliable sources of information, how to deal with news and the speed of its deployment and how it became a rumor and more importantly who is the primary source of the news?
The audience discussed controversial questions that reflected differing views on the state of thee-press freedom during this phase. Especially since, "The public media activity is still unregulated and had not been narrowed, as the electronic press shaped a great outlet for the public to express their views. All of which have created an open space that is not entirely without excesses.
The participants said that the topic is very important and needs more workshops and meetings to come up with recommendations and ideas that can be developed on the ground, as social media sites have created a large space opened for freedom without restrictions or controls which creates a suitable environment for the spreading of rumors and misleading information, so we need to stand together and study the nature of how to dealing with this offering. "
The Participants presented the role of public interaction on social media as comments became of great communication importance as a specific indicator of the size of the electronic newspaper's spread and its impact on the media and the political scene.
This workshop comes as part of the project “Towards an Independent Media Platform for Capacity building, Awareness, and Involvement of Journalists”, funded by the Norwegian and Swiss governments.
