BEIRUT:
The SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom opened its third annual
conference Friday, focusing on the importance of independent and comprehensive
news coverage in Lebanon’s upcoming parliamentary elections.
The
three-day conference at Beit Mery’s Al-Bustan Hotel entitled “Election
Coverage: New Challenges, New Trends” will tackle the role of journalists in
light of technological and political changes.
In
a statement read on behalf of SKeyes head Nabila Hamza, Future Foundation
representative Zeina Ruwaihab said that because of regional uprisings, “Arab
media has witnessed an unprecedented change toward professionalism that
contributes to the integrity and transparency in elections.”
EU
Ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst said that the European Union was
working to implement a monitoring committee for the 2013 parliamentary
elections.
On
behalf of SKeyes, the group’s executive director Ayman Mhanna said that
although the relationship between voters and candidates had become more
interactive with technological change, “the result of this relationship on
democratic life after elections has still not appeared – this gives journalists
new challenges.”
Topics to be discussed
include Arab elections through the eyes of both international and local
journalists, citizen journalism and online electioneering.
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