The Arab Newspaper Development Programme will offer workshops, training and consulting for 10 selected media outlets in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa. The goal is to identify new strategic development opportunities, revenue streams and build sustainable independent media businesses.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the Cairo-based Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute (DEDI) have conducted the Arab Newspaper Development Programme since 2006 to help ensure the existence of free and independent media in the Arab world.
The main aim of this programme is to develop effective commercial and editorial strategies for participating media organizations and has contributed to the general development of the media sector in the Arab world.
The Arab Newspaper Development Programme will offer workshops, training as well as consulting for 10 selected media outlets in Egypt and also in the Middle East and North Africa throughout 2012. The major objective is to identify new strategic development opportunities, revenue streams and build sustainable independent media businesses.
The programme will help small to medium-sized newspapers and online publishers to develop new and improve their existing products in order to expand their audience base and involve further with the citizens. Based on their specific needs, training and skills developments will be offered to selected media in management, sales, design advertising, and layout, web platforms, mobile platforms, photojournalism, investigative journalism and more. The transfer of acquired knowledge and skills from Egypt to additional partners in the MENA region will be encouraged.
Applications will be accepted from newspapers and online publishers in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
The applications will be considered in early April, with the training and consulting to be delivered in the spring and summer of 2012.
Deadline: 31st March 2012
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