Transformations in Egyptian Journalism

Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics.

Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of action against dictatorship and repression, posed an explicit challenge to journalists in state-run and commercial media companies who were more directly subject to government controls.

As different interest groups struggle over the country’s future, Naomi Sakr considers emerging visions of journalism in Egypt. In this book she charts recent transformations in Egyptian journalism, exploring diverse approaches to converged media and the place of participatory cross-media networks in expanding and developing the country’s body of professional journalists. She analyses journalists’ initiatives for restructuring publicly-owned media and securing a safe and open environment in which to work.

"This is an outstanding piece of work: detailed, deeply knowledgeable, authoritative, and with some bravura reporting...which I imagine will become a reference work on the subject." - David Gardner, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times and author of Last Chance:The Middle East in the Balance (I.B.Tauris).

Naomi Sakr is Professor of Media Policy at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, and Director of the CAMRI Arab Media Centre. Her books, all published by I.B.Tauris, include Arab Television Today and Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East and (as editor) Women and Media in the Middle East and Arab Media and Political Renewal.

'Naomi Sakr's New Book on Egyptian Journalism' a review of the publication by Joseph Braude, Author, broadcaster, and Middle East specialist via the Huffington Post blog.

This publication can be bought from I.B. Tauris.