A look back at the Journalism Conference in Tours

Ten students, from the IPSI the Tunis School of Journalism, and three of their supervisors, Hamida El Bour, Ourida Boussada and Hanen Melliti, worked with students from the EPJT (Tours Public School of Journalism) on multimedia productions broadcast on La Feuille, on site in Tours, and online on two sites, one French, the other Tunisian.
The productions were created in French but also in Arabic. This joint work by journalism school students from both sides of the Mediterranean is preparation for a new project for journalism schools that will start in May 2019.

A "Media and Information Education" award for Open Chabab

Ten investigative journalists from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Benin and Côte d'Ivoire joined the panels and meetings of Réseau 3i, the new French-speaking network of investigative journalists. They signed the association's statutes and undertook to collaborate with investigative journalists from Europe, the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sandrine Sawadogo, from Burkina Faso, shared her experience in the workshop les data au service de l'investigation and has been interviewed by Tunisian students from IPSI.
Moroccan journalist Hicham Houdaifa made a name for himself by winning the "Media and Information Education" prize for his Open chabab project, supported by CFI as part of the D-Jil.

Find out more about his interview, in Arabic and with French subtitles, moderated by an IPSI student:

Two winners of Kalimat Horra

In November 2018, during the first edition of the International Journalism Conference in Tunis, Rakia Selmi, from the Tunisian news agency TAP, was awarded the Best Investigation Award for her article on the excesses of pre-trial detention as part of the Kalimat Horra.
Aymen Touihri, from the information site Inkyfada, won the Best Report Prize for his work on the fate of child beggars. These two winners were invited to France to attend the International Journalism Conference in Tours and were also welcomed into the media editorial offices of the France Médias Monde group, Mediapart, Le Monde and AFP.