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Alia Ibrahim
Alia Ibrahim is co-founder and CEO of Daraj.com, a Beirut-based independent digital media platform launched in November 2017.
Before that Ibrahim was a Senior Correspondent at Al-Arabiya News Channel, which she joined in 2008. From 2015, Ibrahim produced and directed episodes for Special Mission, a prime-time investigative reporting show. Her assignments took her to Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Ibrahim’s opinion and news stories have appeared in a number of publications including Al-Hayat newspaper, Al-Arabiya net, and The Washington Post where she was a contributing reporter from 2005 to 2011. Ibrahim started her career in 1996 as a general news reporter at The Daily Star in Beirut. She became managing editor of the newspaper in 2004. After that, Ibrahim shifted to broadcast and became Dubai TV’s Beirut-based correspondent. She was also the Beirut correspondent for the New York-based website Womenenews. Since 2016, she has been an instructor of Journalism at the Lebanese American University. She is the mother of two girls Yasma 12, and Mia 10.
New revenues, new freedoms: business model innovations from politically pressured contexts
The overall economic reliance of journalism in politically pressured contexts is on donor funding. Time and again, published analysis and reports say weak markets, soft corruption, and apathetic aud...
New revenues, new freedoms: business model innovations from politically pressured states
The overall economic reliance of journalism in fragile states is on donor funding. Time and again, published analysis and reports say weak markets, soft corruption, and apathetic audiences make busine...
