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Article: MIDDLE EAST: NEWS COMPETITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
- Article from:
- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- February 9, 2004
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Competition is heating in the world of information providers on the Middle East as producers are jostling to win journalistsE attention and increase their market share. Apart from the large international news agencies, a number of regionally focused actors are also jostling for a slice of the media pie by applying technology to bring together news reports from a variety of sources. In the Middle East, the media war has almost become as vicious as the war being fought on the ground between Israelis and Palestinians. Agencies with a different slant on the conflict, are trying to promote their own sites with a view of entrenching their political position. One new site that ...