The Peninsula journalist Sanaullah Ataullah during the concluding ceremony of the First University Media Forum yesterday at Katara. Baher Amin © The Peninsula
The First University Media Forum, organised by the Media Center for Youth at the Ministry of Culture and Sports, honoured 31 representatives of media institutions including The Peninsula, participants and sponsors at the forum’s concluding ceremony held at Katara Cultural Village yesterday.
Executive Director of the Media Center for Youth, Dr. Hamad Al Fayyad, and Deputy Director of the Center, Ali Al Sadaa, honoured media institutions.
During the event, many sessions were held to highlight the provision of safe space in the field of expression and freedom of opinion through electronic platforms and new media outlets, which enable young people to express themselves and their issues freely.
The Forum aimed at bringing together local media institutions, a number of international institutions to introduce to the society in general, and university youth and secondary school students in particular, these institutions and their services and programmes.
The Peninsula registered its presence within the associated exhibition at the Forum under the pavilion of Dar Al Sharq Group to provide a glimpse of the newspaper’s contribution in providing the media scene with a distinct journalistic material, and the advanced strides made by the newspaper in establishing a vision of local media with a contemporary vision reflecting fast development of Qatar, while keeping abreast of the changes recorded by the media at the local, regional and international developments.
The Peninsula also provided an overview of the establishment of the newspaper and the principles on which its vision is based: contributing from its position to the realisation of the strategic vision of the State of Qatar 2030, while keeping pace with the transition towards a knowledge based economy.
Major media institutions including Dar Al Sharq Group, Al Jazeera Network, Al Rayyan TV, Qatar University, Near East University, Nadeeb Qatar, Al Sharq Newspaper, Marsad Qatar and a number of youth media initiatives took part in the Forum by setting up their separate pavilions and presenting papers.
Khalid Saleh Al-Yafei, a Qatari journalist, spoke about professional media and the future of media in Qatar and the Arab region. He explained that the media is a means of communication with human beings through specific objectives developed through elaborate planning.
He stressed that the news must be conveyed accurately, credibly and in real time, in addition to importance, explaining that these standards differentiate between successful and failed media. He stressed that the importance of content is determined by the proximity of the media to the community or beyond as a point of professionalism and excellence.
