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NEW NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD

The new English-language daily newspaper for the United Arab Emirates The National has finally launched. Lacava Design Inc. was commissioned to create this original design and consult on the web site. The design of The National is horizontal and modern with a nod to the Swiss school of design. The National is a daily quality national and international newspaper published 6 days per week, by the Abu Dhabi Media Company

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THE NATIONAL graphic design project is
	Great! I liked it!
	Awful! I didn't liked it!
	It seems The Guardian in Broadsheet format
	Many text (Full)
	Better than GULF NEWS
	So creative!
	Candidate for the next "SND World Best 2009"'

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The National makes UAE debut

Abu Dhabi’s first English-language daily The National hits UAE newsstands on Thursday, as speculation grows over its ambitions to bring new standards of journalism to the region. Described by editor-in-chief Martin Newland as the country’s “first truly quality national and international newspaper,” the broadsheet launches with a 200-strong team of locally and internationally recruited journalists, with around 30 foreign correspondents. Available throughout the UAE and on flights in the region, it will be printed six days a week and feature 80 pages of national and international news.

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What do you like most in Gulf News ?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	Sport pages
	The classifieds
	Business pages
	The graphics and illustration
	The texts well write
	The print quality
	The circulation. I can find in everyplace

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The National launches in style
The National, a new national newspaper for the UAE published in Abu Dhabi, was launched last night at a grand ceremony attended by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Sheikh Mohammed joined the editor-in-chief, Martin Newland, on stage to reveal the first front page of The National. Work on the newspaper, owned by the Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC), began eight months ago with the arrival of Mr Newland, the former editor of the London Daily Telegraph who previously helped to launch Canada's National Post.

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THE NATIONAL graphic design project is
	Great! I liked it!
	Awful! I didn't liked it!
	It seems The Guardian in Broadsheet format
	Many text (Full)
	Better than GULF NEWS
	Candidate for the next "SND World Best 2009"'
	So creative!

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What do you like most in Gulf News ?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	Sport pages
	The classifieds
	Business pages
	The graphics and illustration
	The texts well write
	The print quality
	The circulation. I can find in everyplace

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What do you like most in Gulf News ?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	Sport pages
	The classifieds
	Business pages
	The graphics and illustration
	The texts well write
	The print quality
	The circulation. I can find in everyplace

pollcode.com free polls

What do you like most in Gulf News ?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	Sport pages
	The classifieds
	Business pages
	The graphics and illustration
	The texts well write
	The print quality
	The circulation. I can find in everyplace

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What do you like most in The National?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	The text well write
	The subjects are interesting
	The graphics and illustrations
	Sport Tabloid format
	Business
	The print quality
	The circulation

pollcode.com free polls

THE NATIONAL graphic design project is
	Great! I liked it!
	Awful! I didn't liked it!
	It seems The Guardian in Broadsheet format
	Many text (Full)
	Better than GULF NEWS
	Candidate for the next "SND World Best 2009"'
	So creative!

pollcode.com free polls

What do you like most in The National?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	The text well write
	The subjects are interesting
	The graphics and illustrations
	Sport Tabloid format
	Business
	The print quality
	The circulation

pollcode.com free polls

What do you like most in Gulf News ?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	Sport pages
	The classifieds
	Business pages
	The graphics and illustration
	The texts well write
	The print quality
	The circulation. I can find in everyplace

pollcode.com free polls

What do you like most in Gulf News ?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	Sport pages
	The classifieds
	Business pages
	The graphics and illustration
	The texts well write
	The print quality
	The circulation. I can find in everyplace

pollcode.com free polls

What do you like most in The National?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	The text well write
	The subjects are interesting
	The graphics and illustrations
	Sport Tabloid format
	Business
	The print quality
	The circulation

pollcode.com free polls

What do you like most in The National?
	I like everything!
	I don't like
	The graphic project
	The text well write
	The subjects are interesting
	The graphics and illustrations
	Sport Tabloid format
	Business
	The print quality
	The circulation

pollcode.com free polls

THE NATIONAL graphic design project is
	Great! I liked it!
	Awful! I didn't liked it!
	It seems The Guardian in Broadsheet format
	Many text (Full)
	Better than GULF NEWS
	Candidate for the next "SND World Best 2009"'
	So creative!

pollcode.com free polls

FLOYD GONSALVES
DUBAI - UAE

FLOYD GONSALVES
DUBAI - UAE
NEWSPAGEDESIGNER

NO TO PLASTIC BAG

Gulf News launches a campaign against the blight of plastic carriers. We encourage everyone to take part in activities to save the environment.
      The Dubai Municipality has made an effort to resolve the problem. But more must be done by government agencies, local supermarkets, retailers and others in the private sector to prevent the situation from deteriorating further. Around one billion plastic bags are used every year in the UAE.
      They clog the country's sewers and have disastrous consequences for wildlife. People must be educated on the dangers of plastic bags and encouraged to look for alternative and safer solutions. It is time to start saying 'No to Plastic
Bags'.

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ABU DHABI NOT LOOKING TO START NEWSPAPER WAR

By Dylan Bowman

      Abu Dhabi is not looking to start a national newspaper war with the launch of its first English-language daily next month, the newspaper's editor has told ArabianBusiness.com.

       Martin Newland, former editor of the UK's Daily Telegraph, said there was plenty of room in the market for another paper and he did not think its launch would spark a battle for readers and ad revenue with Dubai-based titles such as Gulf News, Khaleej Times and Emirates Business 24/7.

       "I don’t want to start a newspaper war. I think there is room for all of us in this market, it's growing at such as rate," Newland said in an interview.

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NEWSPAPERS MUST EMBRACE CHANGE TO REMAIN VITAL

By Daniel B. Kline

Many of the editors, publishers and owners of America’s biggest newspapers seem shocked that they have lost readers and ad dollars to the Internet. They blame young people for not reading and lament the Web sites they accuse of stealing their readers, never once realizing that arrogance has made them expendable, not technology.

They make these assertions after spending decades with their heads buried in the sand assuming that things would stay the way they always had. In the pre-Internet days, while newspapers lost customers to television, they still dominated the printed word and a heavy demand remained for what they sold. Today, however, words no longer reside solely on paper and people have a lot more choices. Perhaps equally important, the needs and interests of readers have changed.

The sensible newspaper companies out there have realized this and have reinvented themselves as purveyors of a hyper-local product featuring stories about their community that go well beyond what was traditionally considered news. Good local newspapers no longer have to offer a little bit of everything, because most things are readily available to readers online or in the major national and regional papers available. That does not, however, mean that newspapers as we know them will disappear, it simply means that to survive, local papers must change to meet the times.

Change and newspapers, however, does not generally go hand in hand as many of the people who work at newspapers have not realized that 2008 looks a lot different from 1973. And while it’s tempting to place all the blame on corporate ownership, the reality is newsroom personnel must shoulder much of the responsibility. Editors and reporters should lead the charge in creating newspapers that serve their readers.

Certainly many newsrooms have been victims of short-sited personnel cuts that make this task difficult, but editors must better use the resources they have left. Serving readers means providing what they want, what they don’t know they want and what they can’t get anywhere else. Unfortunately, the typical newsroom’s view of news often differs greatly from what might actually cause a younger reader – or someone who does not generally buy a newspaper – to plunk down their 50 cents.

Too many editors and reporters still believe that the only news that matters comes from City Hall, Planning and Zoning Commission meetings and the same variety of meetings that newspapers have covered since their inception. While real news may happen at these meetings, generally minutia from the Charter Revision Committee meeting or intimate details of what the Board of Education discusses holds little appeal outside the newsroom. People care about whether a new business will open up downtown and whether the school’s needs might cause taxes to go up, not how these things happen.
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PRESS NOW HELPS START OF MEDIA CENTRE IN IRAQ

    Press Now, with financial support of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch foundation “Democracy and Media”, is planning to set up an independent media centre in Iraqi Kurdistan.

    Judit Neurink, who has been training journalists in northern Iraq since 2003, will be working with Kurdish journalists and trainers to build a centre which main aim will be to improve the quality of Iraqi journalists and media. Under Saddam Hussein media in Iraq were plainly ‘his master’s voice’. In the Kurdish region the situation improved after the end of the Gulf War of 1991 and new media started, mostly as part of political parties.

    Gradually also independent media surfaced, first Hawlati in Suleymania, followed by Awene (also in Suleymania) and after 2003 Sabah (later called Sabah al Jedid) in Baghdad. The Iraqi journalists of today mostly have no journalistic background, as goes for editors in chief.

    Neurink believes an independent media centre is needed to help Iraqi journalists develop themselves, and to help Iraqi media play a role in the development of democracy in the country.

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IS THE LEBRON JAMES-GISELE BUNDCHEN PHOTO OFFENSIVE?

The Annie Liebovitz cover shot of the April 2008 issue of Vogue is the subject of much idle chatter on the web these days. The cover, depicting NBA star LeBron James clutching supermodel Giselle Bundchen, is being compared to King Kong's iconic embrace of Fay Wray. What began online is now being discussed on The Today Show. Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports asks:

''Would we be having this discussion if LeBron struck the same pose on the cover of Ebony while holding Selita Ebanks? Think about it. And if we wouldn't be having the discussion, what does that say about us? Are we only bothered by negative images of black men when the primary/sole consumer of the image is white people?''

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NEW ENGLISH DAILY FROM ABU DHABI

Abu Dhabi Media Company, which is created in 2007 as a public joint stock company from the assets of Emirates Media Incorporated, currently owns and operates Abu Dhabi Television, Abu Dhabi Sports Channel, Emirates Television Channel, Abu Dhabi Radio, Emarat FM Radio, Holy Qur’an Radio, Sawt Al-Musiqa, Al-Ittihad newspaper, Zahrat Al-Khaleej magazine, Al Super magazine and Majid magazine as well as other businesses, including United Printing Press.

      “We believe the UAE needs a quality, national newspaper with the power to change the reading habits of progressive, discerning readers in the country,” said Newland.

       Newland, a former editor of the UK’s Daily Telegraph and former launch editor of Canada’s National Post, said in a statement that a team of 200 internationally and locally hired journalists will form the UAE’s biggest-ever news gathering operation to put together the country’s first truly quality national and international newspaper. “We believe the UAE needs a quality, national newspaper with the power to change the reading habits of progressive, discerning readers in the country,” said Newland.

       “Focused on the capital, Abu Dhabi, but anchored in the new social and political reality that is the emerging nation within a fast changing global context, the paper will offer fresh, compelling content that’s made in the UAE,” he added.
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PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS

Philip Jones Griffiths, who has died aged 72 of cancer, was the most impassioned and clear-headed of anti-war war photographers. From 1966 to 1968, and again in 1970, he lived the Vietnam war from the inside, sharing the conditions of soldiers and civilians, putting himself at immense personal risk. In 1971 he assembled his reportage into a book, with his own scathing captions, entitled Vietnam Inc, which played a key role in changing public perceptions of the conflict, especially in the United States.

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SIXTH FREE DAILY FOR PORTUGAL

Publishing group Controlinveste (Diario de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, 24 Horas and O Jogo) will launch a new free daily: Global Notícias in September of this year. The paper will count 24 pages and will have a circulation of 150,000. The paper will be available in Lisbon first, by home delivery and in public places. A Porto edition is expected in 2008. Hugo Correia Pires, administrator of the group, said that he hopes taht readers will eventually move to a paid daily later. (Publicitas) The new paper will be the sixth free daily in Portugal after Destak

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THE NEW YORK TIMES TO REDUCE NEWSROOM STAFF BY 100

The New York Times will cut its newsroom staff by 100 positions this year, a company spokeswoman acknowledged Thursday, in the latest sign of the newspaper industry's ongoing struggle to stem losses in advertising sales and circulation.

New York Times Co. spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said Bill ...

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