6 IraqiNews.com journalists attend ARIJ meet in Amman

AMMAN / IraqiNews.com: Twenty Iraqi journalists, including six from the independent news agency IraqiNews.com led by its Editor-in-Chief Zuhair al-Jezairy, attended on Friday the 3rd conference of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) in the Jordanian capital Amman. “The event acquires a special importance on the road towards entrenching investigative journalism, which is a methodical art that offers in-depth tackling of problems in a society,” Jezairy, a media figure and a novelist, told IraqiNews.com by phone from Amman. The two-day conference, which kicked off Friday (Nov. 26) with participation of 310 Arab journalists and foreign experts, involves 11 training workshops and 11 working sessions, in which senior Arab and world journalists will deliver lectures. IraqiNews.com had participated in an ARIJ contest with an article about female circumcision by journalist Dluban Birwari titled “Female Circumcision in Kurdistan…Painful Stories Searching for Ends” under the supervision of Editor Jezairy and Arabic Desk Chief Mohammed al-Rubaie. ARIJ is an Amman-based, regional media support network that seeks to support independent quality professional journalism, through funding in-depth journalism projects, and offering media coaching. It also seeks to create a support structure for investigative reporters and  editors, and to build a regional network of journalists, editors and associations. ARIJ is an independent, non-profit, inclusive organization, whose sole aim is to nurture a culture of investigative journalism across the region, among and by Arab media professionals and activists, for the benefit of the Arab public. Funded by the Danish Parliament under a two-year program, the organization was established by Arab media activists and media organizations, in cooperation with the Copenhagen-based International Media Support (IMS) and the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism (FUJ), following a series of meetings that were held in Copenhagen, Damascus, Beirut and Amman. AmR (S) 65