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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed. Twain

Media Still Searching For its Role Post Arab Spring

Media Still Searching For its Role Post Arab Spring

FRANCIS MATTHEW: Government has a huge influence on what is reported, even if in theory the relationship is supposed to be at a distance.…

GCC Media and the Language of Racism

GCC Media and the Language of Racism

CHRISTINA HEBERT: “Aren’t they people too?” He was a man. She was a woman. Their lives mattered. Let’s show that they did. …

Daily News Egypt: Casualty of the Revolution

Daily News Egypt: Casualty of the Revolution

Daily News Egypt, the only independent English language newspaper published in Egypt has closed its doors after a 70% collapse in ad revenues.…

Journalism and Religion: Breaking the Taboo

Journalism and Religion: Breaking the Taboo

CG NEWS: The Arab Spring succeeded in breaking many of what used to be sensitive issues, but religion remains yet to be tackled and reported...…

Pot, Kettle, Black: Jordanian MPs Call Out Media

Pot, Kettle, Black: Jordanian MPs Call Out Media

NASEEM TARAWNAH: When I saw the accusations I felt like my head was imploding. …

U.S. Billionaires, Israel Media: Please, No More…

U.S. Billionaires, Israel Media: Please, No More…

RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Adelson, Klarman... Israel needs these far-right pro-Israel billionaires in its media like it needs a hole in the head.…

Press Freedom Sickly in Israel and Turkey

Press Freedom Sickly in Israel and Turkey

RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Is Israel a haven for the free press? Hardly. It allows extensive use of gag orders to protect the state, the military, and the wealthy. …

A Worrying Journalistic Twend: Twitter Tales

A Worrying Journalistic Twend: Twitter Tales

ALEXANDER MCNABB: Journalists are taking to Twitter to stand up stories on selected, partial tweets. Balanced? Fair? Honest? Since when has that sold a story?…

Bahrain, A Soft Touch for Celebrity Journalists

Bahrain, A Soft Touch for Celebrity Journalists

STEVE ROYSTON: I can think of a couple of neighbouring countries where someone in his position would not be allowed into the country in the first place,…

No Oxymoron: Having Both Effective Defamation Laws and a Healthy Media

No Oxymoron: Having Both Effective Defamation Laws and a Healthy Media

MATT J. DUFFY: Private parties should be allowed to settle differences via civil courts and truth should be set as the ultimate defence against defamation.…