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SUMMARY:Reporting Egypt’s Revolution: Journalism on the Frontline - Jack
  Shenker (ex-Guardian) and Egypt-based journalist Mostafa Bassiouny
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Journalists Jack Shenker (who reported on the Arab S
 pring for the Guardian) and Mostafa Bassiouny (reporter and editor in the 
 Egyptian and regional press).\n\nGlobal condemnation of the sentencing of 
 Al-Jazeera journalists to up to ten years in jail has focussed attention o
 n the assault on the media by Egypt's military regime. In this special ses
 sion of the Bread\, Freedom and Social conference\, we explore the vital r
 ole that independent and critical journalism has played in creating a spac
 e for dissident voices to be heard. Al-Jazeera played a central role in br
 eaking the state TV monopoly over broadcasting\, while for a decade before
  the revolution\, privately-owned newspapers challenged the hegemony of th
 e regime's press. For the first time in decades\, daily reports of protest
 s\, strikes and signs of a growing social movement filled the newspapers. 
 Outspoken talkshow hosts provoked heated debate and discussion\, giving op
 position activists a public platform and a mass audience. During the upris
 ing against Mubarak\, as the global media beamed live coverage from Tahrir
  Square\, workers in the state-run media took matters into their own hands
 \, expelling recalcitrant editors and asserting journalistic independence 
 in order to report on the revolution.\n\nToday the military want to turn t
 he clock back to the days of Mubarak\, when criticism was routinely stifle
 d by jailing journalists and intimidating editors. Jack Shenker and Mostaf
 a Bassiouny will analyse the threat to journalism in Egypt posed by Abdel-
 Fattah al-Sisi's regime\, and explore how activists on the ground are cont
 inuing to resist attacks on freedom of expression.  \n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, West Road (Room SG1/SG2)
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