Please join the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab issues for a special lunch on the Arab Minority and Democracy in Israel's Mainstream Media - Current Trends with Anat Saragusti, Executive Director, Agenda, Israeli Center for Strategic Communication at 12.30 pm EDT on June 29, 2010 at JDC Headquarters in New York.
Please RSVP by June 25 to Hillary Bailey at hillary.bailey@jdcny.org or (212) 885-0825 to attend. Location details will be sent upon RSVP.
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Details on Agenda and Expert Bio
Agenda
Agenda, Israel’s only Center for Strategic Communications, is a unique non-profit center working to reprioritize and reframe social change issues within the Israeli public debate and mainstream media. Agenda aims to strengthen Israeli democracy and civil society, advancing real social change by impacting the media and public debates on key socio-economic issues, civil and minority rights, tolerance towards the "other", environmental justice and more.
Agenda's multi-layered strategy has proven successful in reframing media discourse, influencing public stances and setting policy directives on key social change issues. Agenda's strategy operates on four levels: 1. Engaging in direct media outreach with Israel’s various media outlets to reframe the media’s discourse on key socio-economic issues; 2. Providing strategic tools, training opportunities and consultation services to improve the media-capacity of hundreds of civil society organizations, social change campaigns and community initiatives; 3. Serving as a key informational and dissemination hub for monitoring, research and analysis on the topic; 4. Advancing an in-depth "issue in the spotlight" approach.
Anat Saragusti
Executive Director, Agenda, Israeli Center for Strategic Communication
Anat Saragusti, Executive Director of Agenda, is a journalist, media specialist and documentary film director, worked as senior correspondent on channel 2 news, and performed as a producer-editor for the main newscast as well as the weekly magazine "Ulpan Shishi" (1997-2001). Saragusti edited programs on channel 2 and channel 8. She began her television career as a correspondent in Gaza (1994-1995). Saragusti works to integrate people from minority groups into the mainstream media outlets and to help them improve integration in the general society. She manages journalism and television courses for young Ethiopian Jews, and for young Arabs citizens, and managed to integrate the graduates in leading media outlets in Israel.
She holds a Master degree in LLM (Law) from Tel-Aviv University (Law, Society And Politics) and a graduate of Hubert Humphrey Fellowship given from the American Department of State (2001-2002).