Cairo, Jan 6 (Aswat Masriya) - Four journalists were referred to the Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday on charges of "defaming and publishing false information on the minister of justice Ahmed al-Zind." The defendants include the editor-in-chief of the Al Ahram Gate website, Hisham Younis, the editor-in-chief of Al Mesryoon …

Cairo, Jan. 15 (Aswat Masriya) – A Cairo-based news website said that its managing editor was released Friday. Security forces raided the headquarters of privately owned Masr al-Arabia and arrested its managing editor Ahmed Abdel Gawad on Thursday. Police personnel from the Office of Artistic Production inspected some of the …

Cairo, Jan. 16 (Aswat Masriya) - Parliamentary sessions are to remain off-air for 15 days until representatives review the laws and presidential decrees made in the parliament’s absence. After this, live broadcast will resume normally, parliamentary president Ali Abdel Aal said. Egypt has been without a legislature since the Islamist …

CAIRO, Jan 19 (Aswat Masriya) – On Tuesday, a Cairo misdemeanor appeals court reversed a six-month prison sentence previously handed down to an Egyptian journalist who had reported “a gay bathhouse orgy” to the police in late 2014. The court acquitted journalist Mona Iraqi of charges of defamation and “publishing …

CAIRO, Jan 22 (Aswat Masriya) – A photo of activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh held by her colleague on a sidewalk near Talaat Harb Square after being shot by security forces on Jan. 24, 2015 won the first place in the Shawkan Photo Awards ceremony. The ceremony, held at the Press Syndicate …

CAIRO, Jan. 23 (Aswat Masriya) – An Egyptian lawyer filed a lawsuit before the administrative court on Saturday calling for the lifting of the media gag imposed on the case of Central Auditing Organisation (CAO) head Hesham Geneina. Last month, Geneina told Egyptian media services that the size of governmental …

CAIRO, Jan 26 (Aswat Masriya) - A Cairo court sentenced writer and poet Fatma Naoot to three years in prison and fined her EGP 20,000 (around $2,550) for "contempt of Islam". Naoot responded to the court's decision with, "thanks to the judiciary of kind Egypt," also thanking those who "accuse us …

  تأثير التحولات في ثقافة غرف الأخبار والبيئة التنظيمية الجديدة على أجندة البحث العلمي في حقل دراسات إدارة المؤسسات الصحفية واقتصادياتها: رؤية تحليلية نقدية د. محرز حسين غالي- أستاذ الصحافة المساعد بكلية الإعلام جامعة القاهرة. يدور موضوع هذه الدراسة حول تأثير التحولات في ثقافة غرف الأخبار والبيئة التنظيمية الجديدة على أجندة …

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It's gratifying, as we move into our second year of publication, to note the growth of TBS in terms of the coverage we provide, the audience we reach, and the people who have become involved in the publication. There are several new faces to welcome with this issue: we have …