BBC Media Audit...from 2003
For what it's worth, we've dug up an old study from the BBC World Service Trust: an eight city report on the "Current State of Broadcast Media in Iraq." It's from June, 2003.
Posted by Matthew Burton on May 25, 2005 at 11:26 PM in Media landscape | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (317)
Gordon Robison on media training in the Middle East
Gordon Robison at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy asked us to post his most recent paper, Tasting Western Journalism: Media Training in the Middle East. It addresses some of the problems NGOs are facing in the classrooms of their Middle East journalism training programs.
Posted by Matthew Burton on May 24, 2005 at 10:26 PM in Middle East media, Training | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (332)
Naguib's New Toy
Here is the link to the article in Egypt Today that Nahrain TV through the Egyptian holding company Hawwa was launched September 9 2004.
Posted by Vanessa Hetherington on May 24, 2005 at 10:10 AM in New television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (176)
USA Today on entertainment programming
Iraqis are hungry for entertainment. "People now are looking for someone who can help them forget negative reality and spend a few hours of entertainment."
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Posted by Matthew Burton on May 20, 2005 at 07:51 PM in Television shows | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (210)
Tacoma's News Tribune on Al Iraqiya's Mosul studio
Tacoma, Washington's News Tribune profiles the producers at Al Iraqiya's Mosul studio and the Fort Lewis soldiers who guard them.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on May 15, 2005 at 09:06 PM in Al-Iraqiya/Iraqi Media Network, Prisoner Confessions | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (234)
NYT on Iraq's most popular television drama
"Love and War" is a black comedy that could only have been made in Iraq. It mixes slapstick and even a few Bollywood-style musical numbers with a brutally frank portrayal of the violence here. Several of its main characters die in bombings, others are kidnapped and tanks and helicopters are a constant backdrop. More
Posted by Matthew Burton on May 14, 2005 at 07:56 PM in Television shows | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (321)
LA Times on Iraq's "entertainment renaissance"
After decades of government censorship and a two-year U.S. occupation, actors, filmmakers and television producers are embracing new artistic freedoms to tell stories about Iraqis -- before and after Saddam Hussein's overthrow -- for an increasingly housebound audience.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on May 9, 2005 at 10:00 PM in New television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (321)
Three Responses to Dorrance Smith
May 6's Wall Street Journal included three letters to the editor in response to Dorrance Smith's implication of Aljazeera. Here they are:
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Posted by Matthew Burton on May 6, 2005 at 03:21 PM in Aljazeera | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (360)
An Update from Yemen
Olivia Allison of Rice University is travelling throughout the Middle East and Maghreb. She recently sent us this article on recent developments in the Yemeni media environment. You may contact Olivia through me.
Yemeni media situation
By Olivia Allison
Despite the March 23 presidential pardon of newspaper editor Abdul-Karim Al-Khaiwani, Yemeni journalists say the amnesty is a mixed blessing, as it did not remove KhaiwaAn ni’s charges. Furthermore, journalists said they are still under attack, as the Ministry of Information is reportedly drafting a new media law.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on May 6, 2005 at 02:55 AM in Middle East media | Permalink | Comments (0)
James Pinkerton responds to Dorrance Smith
James Pinkerton in Newsday on Dorrance Smith's Aljazeera column:
Smith went further. He argued that American news networks, including Fox News (where I'm a contributor), are "strong partners" with Al-Jazeera in this hearts-and-minds struggle that America, he believes, is losing. Smith is a serious man making a serious charge, made all the more pertinent after yet another weekend of televised mayhem in Iraq.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on May 3, 2005 at 03:29 PM in Aljazeera | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (114)
