Program dates:
September 30 - October 16, 2003

In Algeria, journalists face challenges to reporting because of government actions to control the media, such as arrests of journalists and the shutting down of news organizations. This workshop was aimed at giving Algerian journalists the training necessary to strengthen their reporting and their news organizations, and included training in Algiers, Algeria and in participants' individual newsrooms.

The workshop offered journalists training in investigative reporting and coverage of human right issues in Algeria. It included discussions on the rule of law, human rights and media law in the country. Also offered were special sessions on how to conduct training in the newsroom and how to foster better in-depth coverage of human rights and rule of law issues. Additionally, special attention was devoted to the importance of journalistic ethics and their relation to Algerian media laws.

The program was part of a program led by Freedom House "On Strengthening Rule of Law and Human Rights in Algeria" and was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). ICFJ's Algerian partners are two Algiers-based newspapers, El Khabar and El Watan.