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Top 7 ‘fake news’ stories on CNN

byHabib Battah
Dec 30, 2016

Ah “fake news” and the “post truth” era: the demise of the world as we know it through…

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Two pools, two worlds of news coverage

byHabib Battah
Jun 9, 2015

By now much of the world has seen the brutal image of a Texas police officer literally sitting…

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Worst NY Times lead paragraph ever

byHabib Battah
Aug 22, 2014

The New York Times logo In journalism schools across America, students are often instructed to read and purchase…

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Israeli sources outweigh Hamas 12 to 1 on school shelling

byHabib Battah
Jul 25, 2014

Source: The Washington Post By now much of the world has heard about at least 16 Palestinians killed…

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Whitewashing continues at New York Times

byHabib Battah
Jul 7, 2014

Violence toward Palestinians continues to be downplayed or completely omitted by “The Paper of Record,” i.e. The New…

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“No-name” dead Palestinians

byHabib Battah
Jul 4, 2014

By now the whole world knows the names of three Israelis killed in the West Bank last week.…

Who Am I?

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.