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is an innovative youth-driven alternative media outlet that engages individuals, community organizations, schools, universities, and companies around Lebanon in building public awareness on critical social, economic, environmental and public-interest issues. Hibr.me does that by working to foster a strong sense of community engagement, critical observation and critical thinking, and independent content creation on critical issues. Hibr.me is totally independent of any political or sectarian group or movement, and is powered by young people in Lebanon between high school age and 30.
believes that everybody can be and should be a contributor to the media, and works to empower and support non-professional “citizen” journalists to contribute stories, information, ideas, and observations. Hibr.me also believes that the profession of journalism needs to be rejuvenated, with an increased emphasis on quality, analytic, and investigative public-interest reporting.
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25,000 copies of the print version of Hibr are distributed freely throughout Lebanon to over 1,300 locations including bookstores, organizations, schools, universities, and special event.
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The Hibr website is our main portal for news, participation, and engagement. Hibr is working to integrate various new technologies and social media tools to facilitate distribution of news & information and enable wide participation and contributions
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Hibr organizes regular events and workshops throughout the country. As of October 2010, over 500 young people have been trained throughout all parts of Lebanon on various topics related to Web 2.0/social media, citizen journalism methods and ethics, information & media literacy, and more (details below).
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Hibr.me is Open
Hibr has collaborated and conducted workshops with many schools, youth centers, municipalities, domestic and international organizations, and refugee camps, including:
- Aishieh Social Club, Jezzine
- American Community School (ACS), Beirut
- American Universal School (AUS) in the Bekaa
- Association for Development in Akkar
- Blue Mission, Saida
- Ecole Notre Dame de la Paix, Kobayat - Filles de la Charité
- Zahiya Salman Official High School
- German School, Beirut
- International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
- IT Association in Tripoli
- Volunteers from Ministry of Social Affairs
- Nabatieh Youth Network for Civic Activism
- National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services (NAVTSS), El Buss Camp Tyre
- No2at3al7ourouf, a project of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting
- We Love Tripoli
- Relief International
- Search for Common Ground
Hibr has also partnered and collaborated with many other organizations and groups, including:
- Association for Volunteer Services
- Global Entrepreneurship Week Lebanon
- Silat Wasel
- TEDxRamallah
- Yalla StartUp
Hibr conducts workshops covering various topics, including:
- Citizen journalism methods and ethics
- Information and media literacy (IML) and critical thinking
- Web 2.0 and social media tools
- Basic journalistic writing skills
- Electoral reform and local governance issues
Hibr.me first started out as Sawt Ashabab (YouthVoice) in early 2009, a youth-run multimedia project that focused on youth issues related to the 2009 Lebanese parliamentary elections. 50,000 copies of the one-issue newspaper were co-published with Al-Akhbar and An-Nahar a few days before the election in June 2009.
The name was changed in the summer of 2009 to Hibr.me to reflect efforts to appeal to an expanded audience of contributors and readers. The print newspaper was relaunched as a monthly in November 2009.