"This Won't Be Limited to Abu Dhabi TV" On April 6, 2002 journalists from Reuters, AP, and print and TV news organizations around the world reported on how a fellow journalist, Abu Dhabi Channel anchor and executive producer Jasim Al-Azzawi, was expelled from Jerusalem by the Israeli authorities. Israel claimed it …
Read More »Mohamed Dourrachad, Deputy Director, Abu Dhabi Television
Abu Dhabi Television consists of three channels: the Emirates Channel, which focuses mainly on the Gulf region; the Abu Dhabi Sports Channel, a pay channel carried in the Middle East on the Showtime platform; and the Abu Dhabi Channel, which includes an extensive news operation that has gained a great …
Read More »Eason Jordan, CNN Chief News Executive
Eason Jordan, chief news executive and newsgathering president for the CNN News Group, talked to TBS Managing Editor Sarah Sullivan about covering Afghanistan, the Middle East, and other hot spots; whether US audiences are talking more of an interest in world news in the wake of September 11; and how …
Read More »Electronic Media and Industrialized Nations: A Comparative Study (1999)
Donald R. Browne: Electronic Media and Industrialized Nations: A Comparative Study. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999. Reviewed by Keval J. Kumar, University of Poona, India. Broadcasting systems in both the industrialized and developing countries have witnessed revolutionary changes during the last two decades. Cable, satellite, and digital technologies have …
Read More »Global Electronic Commerce: Theory and Case Studies (1999)
Westland, J.C. and Clark, T.H.K. (1999) Global Electronic Commerce: Theory and Case Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press. Reviewed by Tino O. Fenech, School of Marketing and Management, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. The version of the book reviewed was the fourth reprint of the 1999 first edition. Because it was released …
Read More »Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East (2002)
El-Nawawy, Mohammed and Adel Iskandar. Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2002. Reviewed by Douglas A. Boyd, Professor, Department of Communication, and School of Journalism and Telecommunications. Director, Office of International Affairs, University of Kentucky I must start with a disclaimer: …
Read More »Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development and Discourse (1999)
Tehranian, Majid. Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development and Discourse. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. Reviewed by Ralph D. Berenger, the American University in Cairo The international waters through which global communicators sail is fraught with dangers: differing concepts of what is news; competing notions of public and …
Read More »From the Editors
Ten years ago TBS's publisher, the Adham Center for Television Journalism at the American University in Cairo, published an obscure book on the second Gulf War called "Media in the Midst of War." Now in 2002 we return to examining the same topic—this time both post-September 11 and in the face of …
Read More »AUSACE 2001: Economy of Media in the New Middle East
The sixth annual conference of the Arab-US Association of Communication Educators (AUSACE) took place in Atlanta, Georgia, October 31 to November 3, 2001. The conference was hosted by Georgia State University and was co-sponsored by AUSACE; the Department of Communication, GSU; the Center for International Media Education; and the Middle …
Read More »Global TV and Film Entertainment ‘Framed’ For India
MUMBAI: The FICCI-FRAMES (Films Radio Audio-Visual Music) 2002 Business of Entertainment Conference (March 15-16) in Mumbai proved that there are increasing global entertainment opportunities in India. Globalization was a focus of the discussions of this conference, which included a seminar "The Emergence of Convergence," dealing with e-commerce and with an e-entertainment …
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