Australian media hits back as Facebook scraps news deals
Meta said on Friday it would scrap the Facebook News tab in Australia and would not renew deals with news publishers worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The social media giant said its decision to pull the plug on the news deal was based on people not going to Facebook...GCC media outlets think outside the box to stay afloat
Reeling from a calamitous drop in advertisement revenues and public trust, news media organizations are reworking strategies to create "niche" content.GCC media outlets think outside the box to stay afloat
Reeling from a calamitous drop in advertisement revenues and public trust, news media organizations are reworking strategies to create "niche" content.Google to pay Canadian media $73m annually after a deal with Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada -- The Canadian government and Google have reached a deal to support the country's media, heading off an imminent threat by the digital giant to block news on its platform, sources said on Wednesday. That threat was made in response to Ottawa's Online News Act, which was due...Palestinian president, factions arrive in Egypt for talks
Ahead of unity talks between various Palestinian factions boycotted by the militant group Islamic Jihad, President Mahmud Abbas arrived in Egypt on Saturday. Apart from chairing meeting of the heads of factions, the president is also scheduled to meet with the Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Palestinian news agency...Syria cancels BBC’s accreditation over ‘misleading reports’
In a rare move against an international media organization, the Syrian government has cancelled the BBC's accreditation over what it termed "misleading reports." According to the country's information ministry, the cancellation was brought about by the "broadcaster's failure to adhere to professional standards and its insistence on providing biased and...Sixteen European news agencies launch joint Brussels newsroom
The 16 agencies -- dpa, AFP, AGERPRES, ANSA, APA, ATA, Belga, BTA, EFE, Europa Press, FENA, HINA, MIA, STA, Tanjug and TASR -- will share some resources to improve their coverage of European events. Press freedom bodies have voiced concern that EU member states exerted overt and covert political and economic...‘Technology has to fix fake news problem’
Faisal Abbas, editor of Arab News, believes that it is almost impossible that journalists alone can fix the problem of fake news, and that technology has to step in to resolve the issue.For Israelis, Palestinian radio broadcasts in Hebrew
"The Israeli public listens to the media that speaks to them, but they don't listen to the other side," said Rima Mustafa, newscaster at the station in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. Jerusalem 24 launched in September with a mandate to cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and in particular...Arab News launches Pakistan edition as part of global expansion
Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, has recently announced the launch of a Pakistan online edition, as part of the newspaper’s ongoing global and digital expansion. The service — available in English at www.arabnews.pk — covers news and views from Pakistan and the wider region, with a special...












