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Hacking the narrative: the media reaction to criticism of Paris-Beirut coverage

byHabib Battah
Jan 5, 2016

The 2015 Paris attacks will be remembered as one of the most widely covered tragedies of the year,…

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Framing tragedy, post Beirut/Paris coverage

byHabib Battah
Nov 19, 2015

I spoke to Al Jazeera program The Stream this week during a special about how Beirut and Paris…

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Split-screen mourning: Paris and Tripoli so far apart

byHabib Battah
Jan 11, 2015

Local broadcaster LBC chose to air a split-screen live shot today of the Charlie Hebdo rally in Paris…

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.