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Facebook Is Ubiquitous. But Will It Be Trusted?

by Conor Sen | Oct 17, 2017 | Opinion

This has been the year of Facebook. Its stock price has increased by around 50 percent as it continues to assert its dominance in user activity and digital ad revenue. It undercut one of the companies trying to catch up with it, Snap, by adding a similar feature,...

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Internet Advertising Expenditure Reaches $205 Billion

by Mutlaq Muneer | Jun 13, 2017 | Business

London – Worldwide Internet advertising spend is set to grow 13% to $205 billion in 2017, according to Zenith Media, while advertising spend on traditional TV would reach a total of $192 billion. Vittorio Bonori, Zenith’s Global Brand President, says that...

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Al-Hurra Producer: My Successful Career Began With a Tour of the World

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Apr 27, 2016 | Interviews

Fran Mires is a bilingual television producer who has worked in this field since 1990. She has produced dozens of television shows in English, Spanish and Arabic. She graduated from San Francisco State University and has a masters degree in journalism from the Medill...

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This file picture taken on December 15, 2014 shows Al-Arab news channel staff on duty at the editorial office in the Bahraini capital Manama. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Al-Shaikh)

Bahrain officially suspends new Al-Arab channel

by Obaid Al-Suhaymi | Feb 10, 2015 | Media

Manama, Asharq Al-Awsat—Bahrain’s government suspended a new Saudi-owned news channel on Monday due to what authorities said was its failure to acquire the required licensing to broadcast in the island kingdom. The Al-Arab channel “had also failed to match the...

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Zeinab Badawi: Arab politicians need to do more to reach out to the press

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | May 28, 2014 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sudan-born Zeinab Badawi is a familiar face to viewers of BBC World as one of the primary presenters of its flagship World News Today program, as well as its HARDtalk interview program. A veteran broadcast journalist with a career stretching...