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Reporting a revolution: the changing Arab media landscape

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All this is why Arab Media & Society was created. The new name is designed to better communicate the journal’s writ to the broad audience of policymakers, researchers, journalists and media executives and others in the Arab world and beyond.

We also believe the new web-only format better serves our global audience. As regular readers of TBS know, the journal has been published in both print and web versions for the past two years on a semi-annual basis. But in a field that changes daily, stories were sometimes dated before they even left the printer.

With the new incarnation, the journal will shift to a quarterly basis, with additional timely articles posted on a regular basis as events warrant (For those of you still attached to paper, articles are available in PDF format for easy download and printing).

The technology of the web also opens up many new possibilities. Podcasts, video streaming, interactive book reviews; we’ll be experimenting with many of these in the months to come.

This is not to say we are creating a blog. Far from it. The journal will contain a mix of thoughtful analysis, in-depth interviews and peer-reviewed articles written by journalists and scholars. Some, like this one, will include links that make it easy to find more depth.

The goal is to provide usable knowledge and valuable perspective. A few articles will be written by authors with an axe to grind, but affiliations will be posted front and center. So, too, we will do our best to provide the other side to articles that consciously reflect particular political viewpoints

The bottom line: A range of ideas, approaches and a broad vista of information that, we hope, will provide an evolving portrait of a region in the throes of historic change.


Larwrence Pintak is publisher and co-editor of Arab Media & Society. He is  the director of the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo. A veteran of 30 years in journalism on four continents, Pintak has contributed to many of the world’s leading news organizations. His most recent book is Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam & the War of Ideas.

 

 

 

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