Dr. Waheed Abdel Majeed, Secretary General of the Sixth General Conference for Journalists and former Director of Al-Ahram Center for Strategic Studies, said: The journalism profession needs more reforms, and administrative reform is one of the most prominent problems it needs, especially since journalism is the lung through which society breathes.
In his opening speech during the opening ceremony of the General Conference for Journalists, he announced that the conference will discuss wage issues in 19 sessions and a round table in which 100 journalists and academics from various directions will speak. Administrative reform, the new vision for reform and publishing, means of improving the financial and living conditions of journalists, and ways to increase newspaper revenues, in addition to discussing freedom of information circulation and newspaper distribution crises.
He paid tribute to the souls of the martyred Palestinian journalists in Gaza and all the martyrs throughout Palestine.
The activities of the Sixth General Conference of the Egyptian Press began today, which is held under the slogan “The Palestine Session… A Path to… “Change.”
The opening is attended by a large number of Egyptian and Arab guests, in addition to a delegation from the International Federation of Journalists, Egyptian press and media bodies, the Union of Arab Journalists, representatives of Arab press unions, editors-in-chief, journalistic writers, and thinkers.
The major media event is presented by Jamal Al-Shaer, and includes a number of segments, including words by Khaled Al-Balshi, head of the Journalists Syndicate, friendship. Wahid Abdel Majeed, Secretary-General of the Conference, Anthony Bellangi, Secretary-General of the International Federation of Journalists, Nasser Abu Bakr, Head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, and a speech by our Palestinian colleague Rula Al-Durra, who was injured during the aggression on Gaza and lost most of her family as martyr or wounded.
The ceremony is also attended by a large number of wounded Palestinian journalists and representatives of the Palestinian press, and includes paragraphs glorifying the heroism of fellow Palestinian journalists. And a list of honor for the martyrs of the Palestinian press who rose while performing their work in light of the war of extermination that the Palestinians have been subjected to for more than a year.
The ceremony also includes messages from former captains and film material about the history of previous conferences, and the history of Egyptian women journalists and their journalistic and national struggle. And the union.
The concert concludes with an artistic performance by the Palestinian Sunflower Choir, which presents a bouquet of resistance songs and Palestinian heritage.
