Faced with a multitude of overlapping crises in the world, media companies are currently refocusing and trying to offer their audiences more than just news. Many have understood that people want more ...
Dina Aboughazala
Dina Aboughazala is an Egyptian media entrepreneur and bilingual journalist who spent 14 years working for the BBC before launching her media startup Egab in August 2020. Egab empowers local journalists from the Middle East and Africa to publish in regional and international media outlets stories that challenge stereotypes and dominant narratives about their communities. Egab specialises in solutions journalism, a genre focused on reporting how people respond to problems in their communities.
During her years at the BBC, Dina covered political, social, economic, cultural and media developments in the MENA region. Dina holds an MA in Interactive Journalism from City, University of London, and when she’s not busy running her startup she gives talks and training sessions on solutions journalism and diversity and inclusion in the media.
Beyond its traditional impact around holding power to account, journalism -- and the processes a journalist takes to find and frame a story -- has an impact on the communities covered in the story, th...
Many publications want to improve diversity and inclusion in their newsrooms – others, like The New Humanitarian’s, want to go even further to decolonize our journalism. For this discussion, we’...
The experiences of news orgs who are not just tackling, but also thriving, by addressing diversity and especially in relation to underserved audiences. The panel will investigate the issue from both a...
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