A founder and executive director of ARIJ since 2005, Rana Sabbagh has dedicated the last 33 years of her career as a journalist, columnist and media trainer to support free speech, independent media and human rights. She helped set up ARIJ – www.arij.net – a media support organization spreading the culture of “accountability journalism” in newsrooms and among media professors and students in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, Bahrain and Tunisia. Sabbagh, the former chief editor of The Jordan Times (1999-Jan 2002), became the first Arab female in the history of the Levant to run a daily political newspaper. Earlier, she was correspondent for Reuters International News Agency (1987-1997) in Jordan and the Gulf. She helped establish Jordan's newest newspaper, Al-Ghad (2003-2004) In addition to her post at ARIJ, she is representative for the Middle East and North Africa on the first elected board of directors of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN). She also is the former Jordan correspondent for The Times (of London), a regular columnist for Al-Hayat and al-Ghad as well as media consultant/trainer for Thomson Reuters Foundation She sat on two jury committees: the UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize (2011 to 2014).
| 18:00-18:30 | Grand Ballroom : Official opening of the ARIJ ForumScreening of the ARIJ 2006-2016 Film Welcome note – Rana Sabbagh, ARIJ Executive Director Speakers
Rana SabbaghA founder and executive director of ARIJ since 2005, Rana Sabbagh has dedicated the last 33 years of her career as a journalist, columnist and media trainer to support free speech, independent media and human rights. She helped set up ARIJ – www.arij.net – a media support organization spreading the culture of “accountability journalism” in newsrooms and among media professors and students in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, Bahrain and Tunisia. Sabbagh, the former chief editor of The Jordan Times (1999-Jan 2002), became the first Arab female in the history of the Levant to run a daily political newspaper. Earlier, she was correspondent for Reuters International News Agency (1987-1997) in Jordan and the Gulf. She helped establish Jordan's newest newspaper, Al-Ghad (2003-2004) In addition to her post at ARIJ, she is representative for the Middle East and North Africa on the first elected board of directors of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN). She also is the former Jordan correspondent for The Times (of London), a regular columnist for Al-Hayat and al-Ghad as well as media consultant/trainer for Thomson Reuters Foundation She sat on two jury committees: the UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize (2011 to 2014). |
