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Dr. Matt J. Duffy is an academic media scholar. An assistant professor of communication, Duffy teaches journalism, ethics and media law at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. His academic work has been published in the Journal of Middle East Media, the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, and the Newspaper Research Journal. Duffy is writing the book "Media Laws of the UAE" for the Encyclopedia of Media Laws series. He received a Ph.D. in Public Communication from Georgia State University in the United States where he studied the use of unnamed sources in journalism. Duffy is an active member of the Arab-United States Association of Communication Educators, an organization that aims to improve journalism in the Middle East. He writes regularly for the Dubai newspaper Gulf News. Follow him on Twitter.

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posted on April 23, 2008 at 4:29 pm


My news writing class enjoyed some milk and oatmeal raisin cookies* today as part of our end-of-semester festivities. Here they are enjoying one of my humorous witticisms. Everyone appears to be having a great time — well, almost everyone.

* A highly underrated treat, too often lost in the shadow of the mighty chocolate chip cookie.

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