Internews Europe

The "Libya Media Assessment" has been conducted betwen the 17th May and the 4th June 2011 in eastern Libya and Misrata. The team visited Benghazi, Misrata, Ajdabya, Al Baida and Derna.

The report notes that current media initiatives are “new, raw, and very fluid.” The country’s media is in need of a range of journalistic, editorial and technical production skills, as well as ethics training. Media outlets are developing in a high-pressure environment of conflict as social and administrative structures tenuously evolve. 

The report calls for the development of a rights-based framework to support Libya’s new-found media freedoms, especially in anticipation of the fluidity of political and administrative changes in the months and years ahead. It also calls for nationwide debate that will help Libyans decide for themselves what their media landscape should look like and which principles should guide it, professionally and ethically.