Talking to the BBC

byHabib Battah
Jun 5, 2012

Here’s a link to my interview with the BBC World Service last weekend. I spoke about the outpouring of new media channels emerging in Syria based on my latest magazine piece “The Media Revolutions of the Arab Spring.” The interview was conducted by World Today host Paul Henley and Al Jazeera reporter James Bays also joined the discussion.

Habib Battah

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.