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Topic: Middle East>Jordan

  • Data Journalism in Jordan: “A Success Story”

      The hallmark of JHR’s program in Jordan is innovative training workshops on data journalism for Jordanian journalists, in cooperation with the Jordan Media Institute. Journalists receive intensive training and mentorship on data journalism techniques. This includes regional and international expertise on how to develop data sets, scrape them to ensure the data is credible,

  • Data Journalism in Jordan: A Success Story

    By:  Anas Damra Since 2008, Data Journalism has become an integral part of the world’s largest media outlets. It has become a new industry in the media space, and has received the public’s appreciation for the fast, simple, appealing and rich information it provides. It goes without saying that obtaining accurate data and information is more

  • Expanded Space for Freedom of Speech in Jordan

    By Dana Gibreel Last year, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) announced its call for applications for human rights reporting awards. I was still working on a report about security raids in Jordan during the past three year. Ma’an governorate was the center of my focus due to the fact that it had witnessed the largest

  • JHR trained Dana Gibreel uncovers deaths during police raids

    Dana Gibreel, a 28-year-old Jordanian journalist won the first place at JHR annual human rights journalism award in Jordan on December 2nd. Dana dared to take on a very sensitive and controversial security issue in Jordan that has barely been covered. Her winning story shed light on the killing of twenty-seven citizens and seven security

  • Ezz Alnatour’s article leads to release of Jordanian prisoner in Iraq

    Ezz Alnatour is a young JHR-trained journalist who works for 7iber.org, one of JHR’s partners in Amman, Jordan. Recently he covered the issue of ongoing imprisonment of Jordanians who fought in Iraq during the war of 2003. Published on 7iber.com , the article has since led to the release of one prisoner from an Iraqi jail, and an advocacy campaign to

  • Journey through Jordan: Day 17

    Day 17 Part of the beauty of being in a foreign country and experiencing things on your own is that you are constantly learning. Whether it be learning about yourself, your comfort level, or even your surroundings, there’s a constant stream of knowledge every turn you make. My experience in Jordan has been no different.