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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Here’s the latest class video — sorry about the sound. I’ll need to invest in a better Flip Video recorder.
Oh, and the recorder AND the fancy pants will be accompanying me to Abu Dhabi.
It’s the end of the semester — time for one of my class videos.
Just to be clear, what exactly is your definition of democracy? Serving the western interests in the region, because if you don't, then you'...
Thanks for this thoughtful post. I wish there were more civic education in the West as well, given that young people in the US today also se...
A Peace of Jerusalem: Changes to this unique, grassroots peace doc continue... Comment openly (or in confidence) at link provided....
what i think is that our government give the press their freedom to write what they want to write but they don't should to be beyond the red...
I agree with what you said, but we can't express whatever we feel because it's not safe doing that. Some people may understand it wrong and ...
The UAE definitely has a lot to improve in terms of giving people the right to say what is on their mind, but I think technology, namely soc...
The idea of press freedom is interesting and may be the media in UAE will take a new destination. However, before anything the idea itself n...
I agree, tumblr is a great website than can be used for several purposes and journalism is one of them. The only thing about tumblr is that ...
Sadly true about our arab community where bribary takes place not only in journalism but in other areas too. However, isn't this happening a...
This is right as I believe we UAE nationality are not there yet regarding the full media understanding and this may increase with the new m...
I built a boat in my garage. Click on the picture for the last update.
