Tagged with: Iraq
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COVID-19 in Iraq: How public interest media can save lives
Abir Awad
Country Director for 主播大秀 Media Action, Iraq
A pop song about protecting yourself from COVID-19 is blaring from loudspeakers in a hospital in Baghdad. The public interest broadcaster behind it, Al Mirbad, is a rare and trusted voice for news and information in Basra 鈥� read more about its vital work during the pandemic from our Iraq country...
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Lifeline radio for displaced Iraqis
Abir Awad
Country Director for 主播大秀 Media Action, Iraq
Radio is proving a lifeline for people displaced by conflict in northern Iraq and cut off from contact with the outside world.
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A step backwards: media in today's Iraq
Haider Al-Safi
is head of project, consolidating media freedoms in Iraq, 主播大秀 Media Action. Twitter: @Haider888
As Iraq faces a militant Sunni insurgency and the threat of a sectarian split,聽its media has fractured along similar lines and fallen into old habits of propaganda and hate speech. A commitment to a new code of practice is needed more than ever, says 主播大秀 Media Action's聽Haider Al-Safi.聽
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Coming home for the first time
Aida Kaisy
Media Reform Programme Advisor, 主播大秀 Media Action, Iraq
主播大秀 Media Action advisor Aida Kaisy's visit to support public service broadcasting in Iraq was also her first ever trip to her parents鈥� native city of Baghdad.
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Radio Al Mirbad seven years on
Tim Eaton
Assistant Project Manager, Iraq
How the independent Iraqi radio station has gone from strength to strength and this year, launched a news website.
