The Legal Framework For The Press Reporter In The Algerian Legislation

Résumé: Media legislation comes to set the framework regulating freedom of the press. It is also considered the main reference for journalistic professional practice. Since independence, the press reporter had suffered from the presence of a clear legal text, that regulates his professional duties and recognizes his legitimate rights. Immediately after independence and until the constitutional amendment of 1989, the correspondent, journalist and all media workers were state employees and even activists in the ranks of the same party, and more than that, they were keen to defend its ideological choices through their articles and journalistic opinions., which was confirmed by Order 68-525,issued in 1969 in view of what had been stated in Articles 2 and 5, where the condition of having a professional journalist’s card was added to it. Also in Law 82-01, issued in 1982, which had established the same thing, considering that the media was directed to the leadership of one party, and Article 6 approved that journalist practiced only for party activists , while Article 34, specified the conditions for practicing journalism . In 1989 when the constitution was approved, the reporter found himself facing an astonishing development in the number of newspapers, met with a legislative vacuum in defining his duties, which was reflected in only one article in Law 90-07, which was Article 28. We Wait 18 years, an executive decree defining the contractual framework, between the press reporter and the media institution, which was Decree 08-140 , issued in May 2008. Later, the legislator came up with an organic law issued in 2012, which was organic Law 12-05, which explained and confirmed what was stated in the previous decree. However, the state’s tendency towards granting a greater margin of freedom in audiovisual activity precipitated the emergence of press correspondents in this sector, which was met by ambiguity, in clarifying rights and drawing duties. The current constitution (2020) granted a greater theoretical margin of freedom of opinion and expression, through Article 54, and the recognition of the licensing system for establishing newspapers and publications, and explicitly mentioned press assistants in the same article as a form of the written, audio-visual and electronic press.

Publié dans la revue: افاق للعلوم