Radio 2M operates with two studios, an American one and a European one. In the European style there is a glass separation between the presenter and the interviewees or the guests of the program; the radio cannot function without a studio production. In the American style there is no separation between the presenter and the others, and they can program any song spontaneously.

There are a lot of important areas and studios. The biggest studio in 2M is one thousand two hundred meters squared and called 1200. According to Younes Amzil a quality engineer in 2M, the studio is the biggest one in North Africa. Here we can see the Saturday night show, and also the summer program studio 2M that assemble young people who have artistic skills for a competition. There is another room for mixing. In this area they work for announcements of programs that they mix with songs. There are other technical rooms in the heart of 2M where they do treatment of signals and editing. In this area they take care also of the channel 2M Monde which is made with terrestrial diffusion.  

2M is an anonymous organization that manages a bouquet of multimedia such us, 2M Maroc, 2M Monde, Radio 2M, Sur La 2 magazine and Portail. It has a process of fabrication of audiovisual materials. The phase of fabrication enters in the circuit of shooting. It starts from the concept into the diffusion. It has three axes for T.V which are, target, content and support. For example for the target, if they choose a very specific subject to a very specific range of society like women, they categorize it and support a very determined target. Concerning the support axe, they take care of the image, T.V, Radio, magazines and weekly reports. Usually, if they want to release a film they communicate it to journalists and do the announcements one week before for promotion. The members of transmission work on the technical side. They work on the summaries, the transmission and the diffusion.

Radio 2M operates with two studios, an American one and a European one. In the European style there is a glass separation between the presenter and the interviewees or the guests of the program; the radio cannot function without a studio production. In the American style there is no separation between the presenter and the others, and they can program any song spontaneously.

There are a lot of important areas and studios. The biggest studio in 2M is one thousand two hundred meters squared and called 1200. According to Younes Amzil a quality engineer in 2M, the studio is the biggest one in North Africa. Here we can see the Saturday night show, and also the summer program studio 2M that assemble young people who have artistic skills for a competition. There is another room for mixing. In this area they work for announcements of programs that they mix with songs. There are other technical rooms in the heart of 2M where they do treatment of signals and editing. In this area they take care also of the channel 2M Monde which is made with terrestrial diffusion.  

La MAP is a private institution established in 1959 and founded by Mehdi Bennouna. At this time the idea of establishing a well know organization and financing publicities was futuristic, but after that it was nationalized because of financial issues. When becoming a state enterprise in 1974 the objectives of la MAP became remarkable and tangible. Nowadays, la MAP has its own budget provided by the state each year. This highlights the involvement of the state in the media sectors and its awareness about the importance of communications in people’s daily life. La MAP functions both at the national and the international level. At the international level, it has many international offices that communicate in four languages, Arabic, French, English Spanish Chinese and Japanese. Those offices are in Paris, Abidjan, Dakar, Lisbon, Washington, Algeria, and so on. The international offices help vehicle news regarding Morocco to the outside. It has also an agreement with more than 50 agencies around the world, for instance, AP, UPR, Reuters and also France news agency. They are not limited to specific subjects; they treat different topics like politics, society, sport, immigration, relation-ship between European Union and many other focuses that may trigger the interest of different readers. At the national Level, they send news to different headquarters and broadcast news from Rabat and they have reporters in all the Moroccan regions. They always seek new material and report facts with making sure of not giving any judgment that may influence the readers and making them believe a certain judgment or a point of view about a specific piece of information. They report facts as they are, and leave the free ground to their news buyers for making their own judgments. They have twenty two offices abroad correspondence and broadcast more than two hundred news each day in Arabic and then translate them to French.

La MAP has five departments, which are the transaction department, computer department, commercial department, external relation and administrative department. The most important one is the news department or the transaction department. This department is responsible for reporting news to the other allied agencies. In this department, journalists and reporters have a meeting every Friday about all the news that were covered throughout the week, and the important news that should be covered in the near future. The news department is divided into 4 desks: political, economic, general and international.

According to a journalist who works in la MAP named Abdulah M’Channa, the organization suffers from the notion of censorship. Meaning that sometimes journalists know the impact of the news on the readers and feel that many people can interpret it in a way that they way they would not like them to do. They do their best to try to move away sources of trouble if not sure about the facts, dates or places. It may take them too much time working on a single news topic before releasing it and they have to be very careful when talking about monarchy, as it is a very delicate topic that may lead to serious problems if it is not treated the way the state and the government inflict. In addition, they have to be careful about some political issues like the problem of Sahara. Most of the time, they record interviews or obtain written papers from interviewees for credibility reasons.  

The Director General of la MAP is appointed by the king. In his turn, the director general can appoint five directors in each department which is the case for all senior departments. The actual Director is Mohammed Khabbachi that holds the post since 2003.

About Communication Club

Communication Club is an officially recognized student organization at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI). CC is made up of students who are communication majors and students from other disciplines.

Some of the major goals of the Communication Club are: to increase awareness of the importance of communication within AUI community and within other educational institutions nationwide; to provide a forum for communication students to discuss their academic concerns and issues pertaining to communication studies; to become an active participant in some AUI activities involving communication (public relations campaigns, ads…

To achieve these goals, the club organizes panel discussions where media professionals discuss specific themes related to television, newspapers, cinema, radio, e-media, and communication within organizations. It also organizes the yearly and highly attended Moroccan Film Days.

Club’s Objectives

v Getting in touch with Professionals from the World of media serving as   a source of Job/Internship information

v Honoring the Moroccan Cinema.

v To Promote Communication skills for future students in this domain 

Action Plan

The main event that the Communication Club is going to organize this semester is that of the Moroccan Film Day.

v  Moroccan Film Day on October (date TBA)

v Creation of a Blog

v  Participate in the Club’s Fair in order to promote the club and recruit new members, and sell sweatshirts

v  Workshops for Nasr School (paintings)

v  Organize Competitions

Board Members

President: SALMA DOUIEB

Vice President: Lamya Bouamar & El Mehdi Zeroual

Treasurer: Houda Ajzennai Ouriaghli

General Secretary: Hind Hanan