Projects all

Project: Jordanian Media Credibility Monitor (AKEED)

Partners

Operated since 2014

The aim of the project is to spread the culture of accountability among media outlets, journalists and society and to promote the culture of quality journalism by continuously improving the profession’s inputs and outputs. It also seeks to contribute toward raising the performance of local media outlets by providing a professional and academic platform to verify news items.

Project: Enhancing Public Understanding of the Economy through Storytelling

Partners

Embassy of the United States of America.

(2018 - 2019)

The project aims to enhance journalists’ skills in telling economic stories by simplifying and humanizing the concepts using data journalism and short video making. It also seeks to enhance media coverage of business and the economy, in addition to creating a space for public discussion of these issues.

Project: Improving Jordan’s Media Capacity to Counter Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Media Literacy and Performance & Content Quality Perspective

Partners

Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

Funded by the European Union.

The project aims to Improve Jordan’s media capacity to counter violent extremism and terrorism from media information literacy and content quality perspectives

Project: Storytelling and Giving Youth a Voice in the Media

Partners

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York

The project aims to strengthen awareness and knowledge of Media Literacy for young Jordanians enrolled in public schools

Project: Media and Information Literacy (MIL) for Children and the Youth in the MENA Region

Partners

The Swedish Radio Media Development Office,

funded by the Swedish Institute Creative Force Program,

In cooperation with the African Center for the Development of Journalists and Communicators in Tunisia,

and Partners for Sustainable Development in Palestine.

(2018 - 2019)

The project aims to enhance knowledge and promote awareness on MIL among children aged between 12 to 16 years in Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia.

Project: Journalism in the Digital Age

Partners

Google News Initiative

Ongoing since 2019

To tackle fundamental challenges to journalism today, strengthen quality reporting, and fight misinformation.

Project: Building the Capacity in Appearing and Engaging with Traditional Media for Ifta’a Department Staff

Partners

German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ)

as part of an EU-funded project.

The project aims at developing and enhancing the capabilities of the General Ifta’a Department’s media unit to produce audiovisual content (television, video and radio). Also, to enable the staff to interact with the media and acquire the profession’s skills, in order to perform their duties effectively.

Project: Effective and Specialized Media Coverage of Economic and Financial Issues

Partners

Jordan Fiscal Reform and Public Financial Management project,

funded by USAID.

The project aimed to improve journalists’ capabilities in covering business-related topics, such as: economic and financial developments in the Kingdom and the mid-term fiscal framework, financial decentralization, public-private partnership.

Project: Development of the National Population Media Strategy (2018–2022)

Partners

Higher Population Council

and USAID’s (J-CAP) Project.

The goal of the project was to draft a five-year national population media strategy, from 2018 to 2022, in addition to an action plan for the first year of the strategy. It also aimed to train several journalists on the skills required to cover population issues.