{"id":217143,"date":"2009-12-18T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25565721.post-4553931022278825490"},"modified":"2009-12-18T02:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:25:48","slug":"lebanon-to-host-2010-world-newsaper-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217143","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon to host 2010 world newsaper conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.annahar.com\"> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Al-Nahar<\/span><\/a> will host the 2010 annual meeting of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. The June meeting will be the first time in its 63 year history the congress will beheld in the Arab world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time is right for the world&#8217;s press to meet in the Arab world, which has so much influence on world affairs, where the media is developing at a rapid rate, but which continues to struggle with repression of the basic human right to freedom of expression,&#8221; Timothy Balding, co-CEO of the WAN-IFRA), was <a href=\"http:\/\/africa.bizcommunity.com\/Article\/411\/15\/42778.html\">quoted as saying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it is particularly appropriate to hold these meetings in Beirut, where the independent press has played a leading role for freedom and the right to speak out, not only in Lebanon, but in the entire Arab world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WAN-IFRA multiblog:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wan-ifra.org\/blogs\/wanindia2009\" >www.wan-ifra.org\/blogs\/wanindia2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li>World Editors Forum blog:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorsweblog.org\/\" >www.editorsweblog.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WANIndia2009\" >@WANIndia2009<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/NewspaperWorld\" >@NewspaperWorld<\/a> and the M&amp;G&#8217;s Trevor Ncube, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/3bucn\" >@3bucn<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter Search: <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=WANindia09+OR+%23WAN\" >WANindia09 or #WAN<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/25565721-4553931022278825490?l=arab-media.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon&#8217;s Al-Nahar will host the 2010 annual meeting of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. The June meeting will be the first time in its 63 year history the congress will beheld in the Arab world. &#8220;The time is right for the world&#8217;s press to meet in the Arab world, which has so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}