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Aleppo TV and the rise of local news

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 11, 2012
“We are the only TV broadcasting exclusively for Aleppo,” says the head of newly minted Aleppo Today in…
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Video: Discussing Arab social media at Waterloo

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 16, 2012
Here is a video of my presentation this week at Waterloo’s Balsillie School of International Affairs on the…
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Media revolution: the Arab uprisings unleash fresh news brands and hyperlocal content

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 29, 2012
These are just a few of the many new media brands that have been launched in Syria since…
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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.
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