Hal media

Goals

To develop solutions journalism to contribute to the creation of inspirational content aimed principally at the young and women.
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24months
100Trained professionnals

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Presentation

The news coverage offered by the media in Palestine is currently only a partial response to the expectations of young people, despite their accounting for a significant proportion of the population. If they are to re-engage with this audience, the media has to update how it produces information, must offer inspirational and constructive content, provide in-depth analysis of news and adopt a new treatment of it.

Without compromising on the essential aspects of ethics and investigative work, solutions journalism is at the core of a journalist's work: informing, collaborating with and empowering the public as a whole. Such an approach is also a way in which to strengthen the link between the media and their audience, by involving the public in order to elicit a response.

The Hal media project – Hal means "solution" in Arabic – aims to encourage the development of solutions journalism in the Palestinian media, not only at a national level, but also locally and online, thereby contributing to the creation of positive and stimulating content more specifically targeted at the young and women and on topics of paramount importance to them (employment, education, health, etc.).

Verbatim
Media outlets need to provide a more complete and more accurate picture of reality in order to have a social impact.
Nina Fasciau (Solutions Journalism Network)

Project beneficiaries

One hundred media professionals, especially from local and/or online media, principally young people and, in the main, women.

Project manager
Maxime HUGEUX

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Hal media

Actions

Project launch forum

Organisation of a forum on the concept of solutions journalism to establish the status quo and to sketch out lines for all the media to follow, and also to draw attention to the advantages of this practice for professionals.

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August 16, 2018

How to cover news from a solutions journalism perspective?

The forum held in Ramallah on 25 July 2018 to launch the Hal Media project was attended by more than fifty Palestinian media professionals...

Development of a solutions journalism training module

This module is to be incorporated into the Birzeit MDC training programme and will be designed for Palestinian media professionals

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December 14, 2021

Promoting solutions journalism in Palestinian Territories

Launched in 2018, the Hal media project supports the Birzeit University in the training of instructors in solutions journalism.

Mentoring the media

Mentoring the media to integrate the solutions journalism approach into their editorial line and to train their teams.

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January 16, 2019

Six Palestinian media outlets join the world of solutions journalism

With the second Global Constructive Journalism Conference being held on 18 January 2019 in Geneva, CFI is continuing its mentoring of six...
March 4, 2019

A constructive look at the latest developments in Palestine

Palestinian journalists are taking a new look at the latest developments and tackling new subjects thanks to the solutions journalism approach.

Development of a flexible solutions journalism platform

This platform will address solutions journalism as applied to youth employment: portraits of successful youngsters, reports from within organisations that are recruiting, the proposal of specific solutions for finding a job, etc.

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March 19, 2019

Launch of a videos series for Palestinian youth

Sharek Youth Forum, an NGO acting as an "advocate for youth", will be producing a series of 17 videos based around constructive topics aimed at...

Launch of a call for applications

Targeting only female journalists under 35 years of age, this call for applications aims to mentor them in the creation of data journalism content relating to constructive subjects in the fields of education, agriculture, health, etc.

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April 23, 2020

Hal Media - Results 2019

The news coverage offered by the media in Palestine is currently only a partial response to the expectations of young people. If they are to re...