Media sector

Media board management on Mithaq

Broadcasting boards, press councils, journalism organisations.

What a media board is accountable for

A broadcast or press board governs editorial independence, which means its main governance act is deciding what it will not decide. The boundary between board oversight and editorial interference has to be written down before it is tested.

What recurs on the agenda

01Editorial code, and the complaints upheld or dismissed under it since the last meeting
02Right-of-reply and correction decisions, with the timeline of each
03Licence conditions and content-quota obligations to the regulator
04Editor-in-chief appointment, tenure protection and removal grounds
05Commercial and sponsorship arrangements tested for editorial conflict

When a complaint escalates, the board is asked what it knew and when. A dated decision log is the difference between oversight and hindsight.

Powered by the Mithaq core

Media tenants run on Mithaq's 42 universal governance modules: meetings, decisions, audit trail, members, documents, contracts, budget, accounts and the rest. Sector-specific modules appear here when we onboard the first customer in the sector; we do not advertise a module before it ships.

Types of media board

Media is broad. These are the kinds of board we onboard, and what each one loads.

Broadcast board

مجلس إذاعي

Television or radio broadcaster governance.

43 modules visible, 1 specific to this type: Licence renewals

Press council

مجلس الصحافة

Press regulator or self-regulatory body.

42 modules visible. No extra type-specific modules; this runs the Mithaq core plus the sector set as-is.

Run your media board on Mithaq

Cloud at OMR 50 per month per tenant, your own domain on the same plan, or fully on-premise in your data centre from OMR 3,000 a year. Bilingual Arabic and English by default.

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