Who we are
About Us:
“Welad ElBalad” is a pioneering Egyptian media company that aims at developing local journalism in our country, in terms of concept, skills and practice. It includes a widespread network of highly qualified local journalists and its mission is to contribute to the nurturing of highly professional journalism committed in the fullest sense to the ethics of the profession and its noble values. We serve our local communities and engage closely with them giving them voice and expressing their concerns and acts as a mediator between its members and the concerned authorities. It is a voice for the voiceless and its logo is “journalism from the people for the people”. We provide a comprehensive journalistic multi-media service. Welad ElBalad won several prizes for its work in journalism from international sources such as WAN IFRA, One World Media, Global Editors Network among others.
Goals:
- Developing local journalism forms to serve the local audience.
- Serving as a link between citizens and officials in an attempt to find solutions to the problems that the former faces by presenting them objectively and shedding light on the positive examples in local society. The intention is to create societal awareness that helps in developing these societies.
Our Slogan:
Welad ElBalad have chosen the slogan “Journalism from the people for the people”
Our Mission:
To contribute to building highly professional journalism that is strongly committed to the professional ethics of the profession and its noble values. We serve the local community and maintain the strongest ties with it.
Our Vision
Our ambition is to change the incorrect concepts around local journalism and weaken its effect inside said societies.
Editorial Policies
The responsibility for published materials falls on the company after verifying the facts in the stories from primary sources and based on indisputable evidence. The published material will abide by the ethics of journalism.
Ethics:
- Abiding by the three sources of journalistic ethics:
Respecting the citizen, respecting the truth and respecting humans
- Distinguishing between personal opinion and slandering or insult. Only opinions are accepted.
- Distinguishing between opinion and news
- Commitment to objectivity
- Refraining from publishing the names and pictures of suspects in cases before a final verdict is announced.
- Guaranteeing the right to reply and correct.
- The reader is the primary focus, not the sources or officials.
- Differentiating between advertisement and editorial material
- Commitment to the Code of Honor for Journalists
- Commitment to integrity in presenting the facts we possess or admitting to not having reached the complete truth in any of the cases being covered or in features or different published materials.
- Commitment to morality and the general context of society
- Respecting the right to privacy
- Respecting personal freedoms, respecting different belief systems and religions, rejection of racism, sectarianism, denominationalism and asserting the belief in the coexistence between different religions, denominations and races on the bases of the civil state and complete equality in front of the law in opportunities and rights.
Gender Balance
Welad ElBalad pays a lot of attention to justice and equality in all issues, most important among which are gender balance in media and working on raising awareness about the weakness of women’s voices in news content and shedding light on the collective influence of society.
The regulations and ethics of comments on the posts on the website and other social media sites:
- Comments should be related to the original subject
- Respecting different opinions
- Guaranteeing the right to reply
- Insulting any person whether they are a public figure or not is not allowed but each person has the right to criticize another person objectively and respectfully
- Promoting websites or pages is not allowed and anyone who wants to publish an advertisement should contact us on the following email address: Info@weladelbalad.org
- Comments that contradict these rules will be removed and if they are repeated the member who posted them will be banned.
- Letters by readers on social media pages will be replied to within 24 hours of being published.
Contact us on:
Via email: Info@weladelbalad.org
2 Sherif St. Abdeen, Cairo