Tripoli, – The Media Standard Project held a closed dialogue session, Thursday, in which representatives of a number of local and international institutions participated in keeping pace with the flood disaster in Derna.
The session was attended by the Libyan News Agency Board of Directors Chairman, Abdel-Baset Abudayah, the Al-Hadath Channel delegate to the city of Derna, Mays Al-Harbi, and the Head of Operations at Al-Massar TV, Hassan Al-Bakoush.
The session aims to evaluate the role of the media in responding to the flood disaster and its repercussions on the cities of al-Jabal al-Akhdar (the Green Mountain), especially in the stricken city of Derna.
During the session, media institutions, including the Libyan News Agency, presented their experience in covering the disaster, confronting waves of misleading news, and conveying humanitarian stories.
According to the Media Standards Project, this dialogue session aims to ensure that the Derna recovery issue is on the list of priorities in various media institutions, at the local level, and that it continues to receive coverage in Arab and international media institutions, and to raise the standards of media discourse in particular, and to reach mechanisms to combat misleading information and neutralize related coverage repercussions of the disaster of political tensions.
Source: Libyan News Agency