Press House Holds a Dialogue Session on "Legal and Media Standards for Investigative Journalism"

Gaza - Press House

On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, Press House-Palestine (BAS) organized a dialogue session on the topic of "Legal and Media Standards for Investigative Journalism", as part of "Legal Protection for Palestinian Journalists" project activities, in partnership with the European Endowment for Democracy.

The dialogue session was held in Gaza City, with consideration of high prevention measures to prevent the outbreak of COVID 19, in presence of a number of Journalists (women and men), students and graduates of media colleges.

The session hosted Ms. Aya Al Moghraby, Lawyer at Legal Protection Unit at Press House and Mr. Fadi Al Hasani, Investigative Journalist, to talk about producing this type of journalistic materials.

Ms. Al Moghraby talked about the importance for journalists (women and men) to know legal basics of investigative journalism, and how to access to information, prove its truth and the way of editing the journalistic material from legal perspective.

From his part, Mr. Al Hasani presented the mechanisms and rules of conducting investigative investigation to guarantee that journalists (women and men) will not exposed to any legal accountability, emphasizing the importance of journalists (women and men) being informed about legal backgrounds for recording, filming and publishing documents in order to avoid any violations.

The session included a number of participations from journalists (women and men), which focused on problems they are facing during preparation of investigative investigations and legal rules, if they committed to, then they will avoid legal accountability.

This dialogue session is one of many sessions held by Legal Protection Unit at Press House, in order to highlighting on many cases related to legal awareness for journalists and media freedoms according to international standards.