Newspapers growing in Emirates

The Los Angeles Times reports today about the growing newspaper business overseas, specifically in the United Arab Emirates.
Borzou Daragahi writes about the National, a daily which launched in April. The paper has an editorial staff of about 240 and its owners are “bullish on print journalism.”

"Don't panic!" editor Martin Newland advises his counterparts in the West. "Don't head to the hills yet. Let's not throw out the business of journalism just yet."

Newland, a 46-year-old Briton of partially Argentine stock, has reason to be optimistic. Although most newspapers are laying off reporters and editors, the English-language National, which launched in April, has quickly built an editorial staff of about 240 reporters, stringers and editors, luring many from Western papers. Newland is a former editor of London's Daily Telegraph and the business editor is from the Wall Street Journal. While many newspapers in America are scaling back, the National plans to expand by adding a seven-section Saturday edition, and it has stationed correspondents around the world.

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