Hiber for Electronic Media
room Ash Shariaah College St #6 / Jabal Al Lweibdeh / Amman / Jordan
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Out of the Margins: Strengthening Independent Multimedia Journalism from Across Jordan

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  • date_range Nov 03, 2020 - Jan 31, 2024
  • autorenew Implementation (Status)

Description of objectives and expected outcome of the project activities in concrete and measurable project outcomes. Please make sure all your results are gender sensitive. Specify whether the requested budget is in a proportionate relation to the nature, scale and envisaged results of the proposed project activities. Add the framework ‘objective-result-activities-resources’ (logical framework) as an appendix. Project Objectives: Stimulate engagement with  socio-political, socio-cultural, socio-economic impacting different communities in Jordan issues through producing and publishing multimedia storytelling that speaks to communities’ conditions, concerns, and aspirations. Increase public awareness on issues of governance through producing and publishing well-researched data-driven reporting on governmental policies and decisions impacting communities across Jordan, both on the local and national level. 7iber will work towards these two goals by publishing pieces produced within the project on its national platform, for these reports to reach the socially and politically engaged audiences of 7iber. Outcome 1: Stories of under-reported communities across Jordan engage 7iber’s readers and lead to a nuanced understanding of the issues they face. Results Multimedia pieces telling stories of different communities across Jordan in the form of profiles and features reach 7iber's audience. Video features telling stories from Jordan, including stories of people, spaces, communities, and community projects reach 7iber's audience. Gender-related aspects: 7iber will assign female senior journalists to work in pieces, in addition to male senior journalists. 7iber will ensure to highlight and tell stories of women from different communities, offering a diverse representation of women and their stories. 7iber will ensure to represent stories of women and their projects within the video features. Activities Produce and publish multimedia pieces telling stories of different communities across Jordan in the form of profiles and features. Produce and publish video features telling stories from Jordan, including stories of people, spaces, communities, and community projects. Resources Human Resources: Project Manager, senior journalists, editor, videographer, multimedia designer Physical Resources: Video equipment Outcome 2: Aspiring journalists from governorates across Jordan increase their capacity to produce engaging, data-driven reports. Results Six fellows from governorates across Jordan trained extensively on journalism skills through workshops on in-depth reporting and writing, writing profiles, data journalism, and digital storytelling, and are able to continue producing high quality journalism from their governorates after the project ends. Gender-related aspects: 7iber will ensure to encourage women to apply to the fellowship through inclusive language and visual language in its promotion of the fellowship, and through targeted promotion of the call for applications. 7iber will ensure to select based on merit, and ensure balanced female representation within the fellows. 7iber will invite female trainers to lead workshops, in addition to male trainers. When coaching the fellows on the production of their reports and stories, 7iber will encourage them and guide them to have a feminist approach to reporting, whether in the sources they seek, questions they ask, or the writing of the final product. Activities Issue call for applications and select fellows Host in-depth reporting and writing workshop Host writing profiles workshop Host data-journalism workshop Host digital storytelling workshop Provide fellows with mentorship and coaching Edit fellows’ stories and reports and publish them on 7iber Promote the published stories through 7iber’s social media networks. Resources Human Resources: Coach, trainers, project manager, fellowship coordinator, fellows, multimedia designer Physical Resources: 7iber’s training space, physical equipment Outcome 3: Local and national perspectives on accountability and governance stimulate engagement with national and local affairs among 7iber's audience and beyond. Results Research-based pieces by 7iber’s senior journalists which focus on accountability and governance reach 7iber's audience. In-depth reports and stories by project fellows on issues affecting their local communities reach 7iber's audience. In-depth reports by freelance journalists on issues of accountability, local and national governance reach 7iber's audience. In-depth reports by resident fellow reach 7iber's audience. Gender-related aspects: 7iber will assign female senior journalists to work in pieces, in addition to male senior journalists. 7iber will ensure to provide an opportunity to publish for both female and male freelance journalists. 7iber will ensure to select based on merit, and ensure female representation within the fellows. 7iber will select the resident fellow based on merit. Activities 7iber’s senior journalists publish research-based reports and analysis focused on accountability and governance. Fellows produce in-depth reports on issues of accountability and local governance. Freelance journalists produce in-depth reports on issues of accountability, local and national governance, and stories of under-reported local communities. Resident fellow produces in-depth reports. Resources Human Resources: Project Manager, fellowship coordinator, 7iber’s senior journalists, editor, coach, freelance journalists, project fellows, resident fellow. Physical Resources: 7iber’s office spaces, and physical equipment. Activities listed in the project’s budget aim to compensate fellows and freelance journalists fairly, contribute to the compensation of 7iber’s team members based on the percentage of time they spend working towards the implementation of project activities, in addition to associated running costs, such as production costs for different pieces and workshop related expenses.

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  • Media and free flow of information

Participating Organisations

Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs Government Funding
7iber Private Sector Accountable

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Budget

748,519 USD
  • 149,600 JOD (Valued at Nov 01, 2020)
    date_range Nov 01, 2020 - Oct 31, 2021
  • 164,313 JOD (Valued at Nov 01, 2021)
    date_range Nov 01, 2021 - Oct 31, 2022
  • 174,175 JOD (Valued at Nov 01, 2022)
    date_range Nov 01, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
  • 42,641 JOD (Valued at Nov 01, 2023)
    date_range Nov 01, 2023 - Jan 31, 2024
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