Journalists' vision for the freedom of the press in the unified media law draft and its impact on professional performance of the Egyptian press

This study comes to monitor, analyze and explain the Egyptian journalists’ vision of the freedom of the press in the unified media law draft, in terms of the freedom it allowed for freedom of media work in general and journalists in particular, and the extent of positive or negative changes that may occur in the media and journalistic reality after the approval of the media unified law, the freedom of natural and legal persons to publish newspapers and the establishment of media institutions, the extent to which the new law enables journalists and media professionals to derive information from its sources and empowers them as an authority to change for the better, the freedom of media professionals to choose the heads of councils that emerged from the draft unified media law as a kind of separation of powers, and the extent of safety The journalist enjoys from imprisonment and punishment because of his opinion under the unified media bill, and the extent to which the freedom afforded by the law is implemented on the ground.
The problem of the study is crystallized in monitoring freedom of the press in the draft of the unified media law, which consists of a group of elements, namely the freedom that this law allowed for freedom of media work in general and journalists in particular, and the extent of positive or negative development that can occur in the media and journalistic reality after the adoption of the unified media law draft, the freedom to issue newspapers to natural and legal persons and the establishment of media institutions, the extent to which the new draft law enables media workers and journalists to derive information from its sources, empowering them as an authority to change for the better, the freedom of media professionals to choose the heads of councils that emerged from the unified media law as a kind of separation of powers, and the extent The safety that the journalist enjoys from imprisonment and punishment because of his opinion under the unified media bill, and the extent to which the freedom afforded by the bill is implemented on the ground.