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Building Libya's new media 'from a void' - Features - Al Jazeera English


Good journalistic practices are especially important as 'Libya is now suffering from the spreading of rumours', said Huni [D.Parvaz/Al Jazeera]

Tripoli, Libya -
Going from being a country with a highly controlled press to one that has free, independent and functioning media in roughly a year is a tall order. This is true even for Libyans, who, last year, did what seemed impossible, and freed their nation from Muammar Gaddafi's iron grip.


But Gaddafi's four-decade rule has left its scars everywhere, including the nation's newsrooms, which, for so long, acted as nothing more than the propaganda machine of the "Brother-Leader".

Despite the initial revolutionary surge of entrepreneurial journalists, finally free to report on the horrors of the Gaddafi era, what remains is a struggle to understand the type of media a budding democracy needs - and what it takes to build it.

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