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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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The Washington Post changes terrible headline

byHabib Battah
Feb 11, 2015

The headline above was published this morning by The Washington Post at 11:05 AM as seen in…

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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…

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.