Media after the Arab Spring: Lina Attalah and Peter Greste [Conversations from Storyology]

“This is an unprecedented moment of restriction for us as journalists - and people in general in Egypt,” says Lina Attalah. She and other journalists founded an independent online news outlet, Mada Masr, in the wake of the Arab Spring. But in these turbulent times, it hasn’t been easy. At Storyology, we paired her up with Peter Greste, the journalist who came to Egypt in 2013 for a “very vanilla” story and found himself imprisoned on trumped-up charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. Conversations from Storyology is a miniseries in the WalkleyTalks podcast, produced by Kate Golden for the Walkley Foundation with help from 2SER in Sydney, Australia. This episode was edited by Ninah Kopel. Music is “Puzzle Pieces” by Lee Rosevere. Subscribe to the Walkleys newsletter at walkleys.com/subscribe.