Abd Ellatif El menawy
Abdel Latif Fouad El-menawy "عبد اللطيف المناوي" is an author, columnist, and multimedia journalist who covered war zones and conflicts around the world. He is the author of "Tahrir- the last 18 days of Mubarak ". He wrote the book as an eyewitness to events happened during the 18 days before the stepdown of Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
He is a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the United Kingdom and the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate. El menawy was also one of the International Emmy Awards 2010 Jurors.
Menawy founded the Middle East Media Center for Studies on September 2013. MEMCS is a research center that works mainly in Egypt to follow political, economic and cultural issues around the country.
Through his professional career in journalism, Abdel Latif El Menawy covered Bosnia during the war in 1994. He also reported from Sudan in 1989. Libya, Algeria, France, Hong Kong and Germany are also countries he reported on hot issues from. El menawy’s latest public position was President of Egypt’s News Center. Egypt News Center consists of Egypt News which produces news for Egyptian local television channels, Nile News which covers world news and Egypt’s for Arab audience, and Nile International which covers Egypt to international audience in three languages English French and Hebrew. He established Radio Misr which is the first thematic radio station that produces news in different light forms for radio listeners inside Egypt. Radio Misr mixed news with songs in a bid to increase listening ratings which made it very popular especially during the events of the 25th of January. El menawy held this position from 2005 till he resigned at the end of March 2011.
El-menawy was the head of the Egypt News Center until March 2011, when he submitted his resignation to Egypt's interim government following protests by hundreds of members of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union who claimed he had misled the public in reporting on the January 25 Revolution.
During this period of time, he was responsible for all news coverage that comes out of the state television. He centralized news reporting in the Egyptian Radio and Television Union. El menawy extended coverage of political, economic and social events in the country to most of Egypt’s governorates.
He opened the state television to the idea of covering all cities and towns in the country instead of covering Cairo as covering Egypt. El menawy worked on pushing reporters to take different angles when covering government activities. He introduced the concept of public television instead of state television through giving different political and social parties in Egypt a voice through the national television one way or the other and whenever possible. He pushed for increasing focus on daily sufferings of the Egyptian citizen. El menawy introduced feature reporting in a way to address such problems in society in a bid to avoid government censorship. He also established website reporting in State Television. He was responsible for establishing 3 main news websites Egypt news, Nile news and Nile International which has news in English, French and Hebrew. He moved the Hebrew transmission from Satellite to internet broadcast in a bid to reach Israeli citizens.
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