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LBC features Beirut Report, sets record straight on Nasrallah

byHabib Battah
Aug 26, 2013

In the report above, LBC documented my criticism of a blatantly sectarian New York Times headline and its…

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New York Times changes sectarian headline

byHabib Battah
Aug 22, 2013

That’s today’s headline (above), changed as a direct result of this post I wrote about yesterday’s sectarian headline…

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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.