Women In News MENA Regional Summit launched in Beirut

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Wed, 16 Jan 2019 - 08:21 GMT

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Wed, 16 Jan 2019 - 08:21 GMT

Senior Executive at Bloomberg, Laura Zelenko, lead
a session on media management

Senior Executive at Bloomberg, Laura Zelenko, lead a session on media management

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)
launched the inaugural Women In News (WIN) Middle East and North Africa
(MENA) Regional Summit in Beirut, Lebanon on 15 January 2018. WIN Regional
Director, Fatemah Farag, gave the opening statement to more than 100 women
journalists from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine who have been part of the
WIN MENA programme over the past four years.

WAN-IFRA CEO, Vincent Peyrègne, welcomed the attendees, saying, “I am
happy to be in the minority today with almost 99% of attendees being women,
which is unique and promising.” said Peyrègne.

Vincent Peyrègne -فينسنت بيراني
WAN-IFRA CEO, Vincent Peyrègne, welcomes the attendees
Melanie Walker, Head of Media Development at WAN-IFRA also spoke to the
participants highlighting the program’s achievements since its launch in MENA in
2015. “This programme started with 15 participants from 3 countries in 2010, and
now we are working in over 12 countries with more and more participants joining
the programme every year.”

The Summit is attended by a number of international journalists who are speaking
on a number of sessions over the period of two days.

On the Summit’s first day, Senior Executive at Bloomberg, Laura Zelenko, lead
a session on media management, and how her organisation adapted internal
policies to achieve gender balance. Zelenko invited participants to share their
stories and experiences as women journalists during her session.

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The day continued with a session on peer mentoring with WIN coaches Datal
Saoud, Mahmoud Atout, Lamia Radi, and Fatma Kheir, as well as a
session on sexual harassment in newsrooms lead by Carin Andersson,
Director of Human Resources at MittMedia in Sweden and Egyptian journalist
Lamia Radi.

During the last session of the day, investigative journalist Mohammed Komani
gave a Google Masterclass on the latest tools offered by the Google News
Initiative.

An opening reception will take place at the Sursock Museum in Beirut later on
Tuesday.

Attendees - الحضور

Participants 2 - المشاركات

Dalal Saoud - دلال سعود

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