Iraqi journalists join hands under National Media Alliance
To provide better coverage of the Mosul operation and fight the Islamic State propaganda, several Iraqi media outlets have joined a media alliance.
BAGHDAD — With the beginning of the battle to liberate Mosul, several media outlets, including governmental and private media, decided to wage a media battle against the Islamic State (IS) by establishing the National Media Alliance on Oct. 17 to support the operations to liberate Mosul.
This came as a response to IS propaganda, which has been conducting an extensive media campaign through its personal pages on social networking sites, where the organization wages psychological warfare, recruits fighters and attracts supporters.
The media alliance includes several media institutions, including the Iraqi Media Network, which represents the government view and operates TV channels such as Al-Iraqiya and the popular Iraqi private channel Alsumaria TV. The alliance relies on a unified plan that is carried out in a joint operations newsroom, reporting on the battles and providing technical and journalistic services.
The media of the Popular Mobilization Units, representing dozens of the militant factions, joined the media alliance Oct. 18.
