Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Iran’s new president: What’s next for the country’s media? | The Listening Post” – below is their description.
Iran’s new president-elect is heading into the job carrying some baggage from the past that neither he nor the country’s state-friendly news outlets care to talk about.
Contributors:
Mahsa Alimardani – Iran researcher, Article 19; researcher, Oxford Internet Institute
Ghanbar Naderi – Iranian affairs analyst
Pardis Shafafi – Anthropologist and researcher, ERC Off-Site Project
Arash Azizi – Author of Shadow Commander
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Contributors:
Amaury Pacheco – Poet and activist, Movimiento San Isidro
Fernando Ravsberg – Journalist; former correspondent, BBC
Fernando Rojas – Cuban Deputy Minister of Culture
Marta Maria Ramirez – Independent journalist
00:00 Intro
01:07 What’s next for Iran’s media?
11:51 Influencers in Egypt convicted of human trafficking
14:07 Freedom of expression in post-Castro Cuba
24:16 Should I Stay or Should I Go?
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Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel
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