"During this week’s career chat, we talked with Doug Mitchell, a consultant and project manager for NPR who used to teach radio at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.

Mitchell drew upon his experiences in the workplace and the classroom and talked about the digital skills that journalists need to succeed. Specifically, he offered tips about how to acquire these skills and how they can help you in the newsroom."

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"As for the Iraqi journalists, the situation is not so different, for this section that has paid a heavy prize since the year 2003, and still suffering until today over unfair rules which do not protect the journalist on one hand, and passing new legislations that limit the freedom of the press, media and the freedom expression on the other hand.

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights Mission made a tour in Iraq in July, 2012, where it visited Bagdad, Basra and Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf, and it met many independent human rights defenders, and those who work for NGOs as well as the journalists, in a field study about the most primary challenges that they face including the violations that take place against them.

The mission concluded that the violations against the human rights and journalists and the harassments against the NGOs are still going on in different methods, but at a less scale than the past years. We will mention them in the report."

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