Rana Sabbagh (رنا صباغ , رنا الصباغ) is a Jordanian journalist, and co-founder of the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism. She was chief editor of The Jordan Times from from 1999 to 2002, and the first Arab woman in the Middle East to run a daily newspaper.
From 1986 to 1997 she was a correspondent for Reuters International News Agency, and The Times (London) from 2001-2014
Her op-ed’s have been featured in the Huffington Post, and her regular columns in Al-Hayat and Al-Ghad. She is regional media consultant/trainer for Thomson Reuters Foundation. She helped establish Jordan’s independent newspaper, Al-Ghad.
She received a bachelor’s degree from Lebanese American University and a master’s degree from the I.E. University in Madrid.
She is a member of the board of directors of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, representing the MENA region. She is a former jury member of UNESCO’s annual world media freedom prize (2011-2014), Arab Media Prize (2014) organized by the Dubai Press Club, and Samir Kassir Foundation Award for Freedom of the Press.
It was during Sabbagh’s tenure at Jordan Times that Rana Al Husseini‘s reporting on “honor killings” came to the forefront.
Sources
- https://www.occrp.org/en/aboutus/staff/rana-sabbagh
- https://iravaban.net/en/192467.html
- https://gijn.org/election-of-board-for-gijn-2014/rana-sabbagh/
- https://ethicaljournalismnetwork.org/who-we-are/our-people/rana-sabbagh
- https://en.arij.net/materials/rana-sabbagh-on-arij/
- https://www.mediasupport.org/investigative-reporting-in-arab-world-makes-a-difference/
- https://youtu.be/Gbd01PMyaXE
- https://impact.gijn.org/interviews/rana-sabbagh/
- https://philanthropynewyork.org/news/philtalk-rana-sabbagh-arab-reporters-investigative-journalism
- https://blogarchive.wan-ifra.org/2015/07/01/source-protection-erosion-a-global-case-study-on-the-rising-threat-to-investigative-journ
- https://www.albawaba.com/business/10-female-journalists-reporters-news-media
- https://en.arij.net/news/journalist-rana-sabbagh-life-on-a-wheel/
- https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/jordan-times-turns-41-keeps-fighting
- https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/jordan-times-%E2%80%94-enabling-environment-women-journalists
In Arabic:
- https://manhom.com/%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%BA/
- https://arij.net/trainers/%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%BA/
In German
Selected articles
- https://www.al-fanarmedia.org/2016/01/save-jordan-from-a-curriculum-that-promotes-division-and-ignorance/
- https://www.ammonnews.net/article/310452 لعنة البحر الميت!! (“Curse of the Dead Sea”)
- http://www.alraafed.com/2018/10/17/١-308/(إعلام الأنظمة في ظل فجيعتنا) (“Informing the regimes in the shadow of our bereavement”)(Jamal Khashoggi)
- https://m24.no/arab-reporters-for-investigative-journalism-magasin-rana-sabbagh/despite-growing-repression-investigative-journalism-survives-in-the-arab-world/145223
- https://yourmiddleeast.com/2014/12/05/an-alliance-of-governments-private-media-as-well-as-the-ordinary-public-has-set-itself-against-dissenting-voices/
See also
The manual “Story-Based Inquiry”, compiled by Dr. Mark Lee Hunter, a media professor at INSEAD. Story-Based Inquiry:A manual for investigative journalists by Mark Lee Hunter with (in alphabetical order) Nils Hanson, Rana Sabbagh, Luuk Sengers, Drew Sullivan, Flemming Tait Svith and Pia Thordse https://bird.tools/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/SBI_Manual.pdf
Since its publication by UNESCO in 2009, “Story-Based Inquiry” has been translated to 12 languages, which makes it the first trans-cultural reference work in the world – that is not the only way in which ARIJ is influencing international practice.
Social media
Twitter: Rana Sabbagh@Rana_Sabbagh
Gender Desk 
Bumping this. I am absolutely delighted that an organization she co-founded, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, is one of the initial scholarship recipients of the Knowledge Equity Fund. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/News_from_Diff