Indonesian Journalism: Lessons for the U.S.?
Published on CJR.org Feb. 4, 2011 American journalism is, as they say, “in transition.” But…
Arab Media Revolution Spreading Change
(Jan. 31,2011) Egyptians have overcome their fear of the police state. It is a seminal moment in…
Crowd-sourcing Tunisia: separating electronic rumor from reality
(Jan. 21, 2011) The Tunisian revolution is another reminder of the power of viral media. But it…
Reporting the Revolution: The New Voice of Arab Journalism
(Jan. 2011) The ouster of Tunisian President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali and the ongoing regional…
Blogging in the Middle East: Not Necessarily Journalistic
By Lawrence Pintak and Yosri Fouda CAIRO – What is a journalist? In Western media circles these…
Inside the Arab Newsroom: Arab Journalists Evaluate Themselves and the Competition
(Vol. 10 No. 2 April 2009) In the years since 9/11, much has been written about the alleged bias…
Arab Media Wars: Hamas, Fatah and the Arab Media World
ABU DHABI (Jan. 23, 2009) – Surf the blogs in the Arab world and you find a common theme: the…
Borderless Journalism in Gaza: BBC, CNN-I, and Al Jazeera English offer nuanced coverage of Gaza war
CAIRO (Jan. 21, 2009) – In television terms, Gaza has been déjà vu all over again. U.S.…
The Mission of Arab Journalism: Creating Change in a Time of Turmoil
(Vol. 13 No. 3 July 2008) In the years after 9/11, the Bush administration repeatedly charged…
Misreading the Arab Media
(May 25, 2008) “ARABIC TV does not do our country justice,” President Bush complained in…
The Princess and the Facebook Girl
Issue 5, Spring 2008 Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a beautiful…
Darfur: Covering the “forgotten” story
Issue 2, Summer 2007 There is no issue in Arab journalism today that is more controversial than…