{"id":7393,"date":"2016-12-30T02:07:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T02:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/2016s-media-timetable\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T02:07:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T02:07:16","slug":"2016s-media-timetable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/critique\/2016\/12\/30\/7393\/","title":{"rendered":"2016\u2019s Media Timetable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the events of Armenia\u2019s media field in 2016 with this timeline:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline3\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=1Qx10sdjGDYCLqZy85MR6AA8lfFmuwzOv3igegcKrgWU&amp;font=Default&amp;lang=en&amp;initial_zoom=2&amp;height=650\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">April war<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2016 was a difficult year for journalists working in Armenia. Few were working in the armed conflict zone. The April war gave that work experience to a new generation of Armenian journalists.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During the discussions following the four days of war it became clear that editorials are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/NKPeace-Armenian-Media-Coverage\">technically<\/a> not prepared to work in the conflict zone, journalists do not have sufficient skills to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/Travel-Safety-and-Hostile-Environments-Tips\">work safely<\/a> in dangerous conditions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Attack on journalists<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The capture of Armenia\u2019s Police Patrol Service Regiment in 2016 by the group called \u201cSasna Tsrer\u201d was the largest political crisis. In those days, on July 29, during the covering of the operation to disperse gathered protesters in Yerevan\u2019s Sari Tagh district, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/attack-on-journalists-sari-tagh\">journalists were attacked<\/a>. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/khosq.am\/reports\/%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4-%D5%AD%D5%B8%D5%BD%D6%84%D5%AB-%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6-%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%B3%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%AB-8\/\">report<\/a> of the Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, on that day 16 employees of different media outlets were subjected to physical violence. There were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/Erebuni-Protest-Journalists-Beaten\">registered<\/a> cases of attacks against journalists even before the Sari Tagh cases.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RA President Serzh Sargsyan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.president.am\/hy\/statements-and-messages\/item\/2016\/08\/01\/President-Serzh-Sargsyan-speech-at-meeting-with-government-civil-and-spiritual-representatives\/\">apologized<\/a> to journalists for the Sari Tagh cases. In this case there are criminal cases, but the investigation has yet to identify the guilty police officers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The case of #ElectricYerevan<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After Serzh Sargsyan\u2019s apology the criminal investigation on the attack of journalists during the 2015 #ElectricYerevan events was activated. During the year ahead the Special Investigation Service officers did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/electric-yerevan-journalists-1-year-later\">not include<\/a> any accused persons or suspects in their case, but were later quickly able to get them to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/electric-yerevan-journalists-court\">court stage<\/a>. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Facebook blocked<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For a short period of time in 2016, there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/facebook-blocked-in-armenia\">recorded case<\/a> of the social network Facebook being blocked in Armenia. On the morning of July 17, hours after the capture of the patrol police regiment in Yerevan, for a portion of Armenian users Facebook was blocked for close to 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Farewell to analog broadcasting<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Digital broadcasting came into force. From October 20 analog television broadcasting was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/analog-digital-switchover-will-be-in-october-2016-in-armenia\">cut off<\/a> within Armenia. However those regional TV stations, which do not have a license for digital broadcasting, continue to work in the analog broadcast domain.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tvapatum 2016<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201cTvapatum\u201d international media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/Tvapatum-2016-media-conference\">conference<\/a> and \u201cTvapatum\u201d journalism contest were held in Armenia for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTvapatum\u201d international media conference and \u201cTvapatum\u201d journalism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/Tvapatum-2016-Awards\">contest<\/a> were held in Armenia to inspire the media field, and to discuss the media content of the digital environment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The \u201cTvapatum Investigation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.am\/Tvapatum-investigation-conference-2016\">Media Against Corruption<\/a>\u201d journalism conference was hosted in order to promote investigative journalism and the revelations of corruption cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Gegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the events of Armenia\u2019s media field in 2016 with this timeline: April war 2016 was a difficult year for journalists working in Armenia. Few were working in the armed conflict zone. The April war gave that work experience to a new generation of Armenian journalists. During the discussions following the four days of war<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/critique\/2016\/12\/30\/7393\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critique","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}