Mustapha Masmoudi (May 23, 1937 – September 26, 2013) was a Tunisian politician and diplomat.
Munzinger Online/Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv. Accessed 16 June 2019. He was Secretary of State for Information under Hédi Nouira, before becoming Tunisia's Permanent Representative to

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

. He is best known for his articulation of the need for a '

New International Information Order The New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO, also shortened to New World Information Order, NWIO or just, more generally, information order) is a term coined in a debate over media representations of the developing world in UNESCO in ...

' to safeguard the interests of non-aligned countries.

Life

Mustapha Masmoudi was born on May 23, 1937 in

Sfax Sfax (; ar, صفاقس, Ṣafāqis ) is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD849 on the ruins of Berber Taparura, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate (about 955,421 inhabitants in 2014), and a Mediterrane ...

. He studied law and economics at the

University of Tunis Tunis University ( ar, جامعة تونس, french: link=no, Université de Tunis) is a university in Tunis, Tunisia. It was founded in 1960 on the basis of earlier educational establishments. The University of Tunis is a member of the Mediterr ...

, graduating in 1963. He then became a civil servant, rising through several posts before becoming President and Director General of

Tunis Afrique Presse Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) ( ar, وكالة تونس إفريقيا للأنباء) is a Tunisian press agency. History and profile The agency, based in Tunis, was founded on 1 January 1961. With a corps of 300 agents, including photographers, r ...

in February 1974. In September 1974 he was appointed Secretary of State for Information. Masmoudi's efforts led to

establishing an International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems in 1977. Masmoudi was a member of the Commission, and contributed an appendix to its 1980 report, the

MacBride Report ''Many Voices One World'', also known as the MacBride report, was written in 1980 by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which reports to its International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems ...

. He died 26 September 2013 in Tunis.Mustapha Masmoudi est décédé
''Leader'', 26 September 2013. Accessed 16 June 2019.

Works

* ''Economie de l'information en Tunisie'', 1975 * 'The New World Information Order', ''Journal of Communication'', Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring 1979), p. 183. * ''النظام الإعلامي الجديد'' he New Media System 1985 * ''Voie libre pour monde multiple'', 1986

References

1937 births 2013 deaths Tunisian politicians Tunisian diplomats {{Tunisia-bio-stub