ISOJ 2016

1. TEHRAN BUREAU
❑ Founded in 2008
❑ Partnership with PBS/Frontline 2009
❑ Partnership with the Guardian since 2013
❑ Audience: 200,000 unique monthly views/ 451,000 Facebook
“likes”/ 54,000 Twitter followers
❑ Security: From anonymous bylines to collaborative reporting
❑ Educating a new generation of independent journalists
through remote on-the-job training
❑ Transparency and business reporting in post-nuclear
agreement Iran

2. nlReport
Reporting on Iran
State censorship
-Media outlets act as mouthpieces of political factions and regime-
affiliated organizations
-Quality of journalism education is low and students have limited
access to it
Self censorship
-Iranian news outlets take care to follow regime “red line”
-Cases of persecution lead accredited foreign correspondents to
avoid controversial stories
-Media organizations make compromises to retain access to
country

3. Covering Iran
We venture beyond affluent North Tehran, and include regional perspectives, to shed light
on the shifting political landscape.