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Business magazine banned in United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates banned a popular Mideast business website and magazine on Wednesday for publishing what the authorities alleged was “false news.”

Adam Schreck of the Associated Press reports, “An editor who answered the phone at Arabian Business declined to comment, and other officials at the magazine and its parent company ITP Media Group did not respond to queries.

“The magazine recently reported that courts in Dubai were in the process of liquidating dozens of failed real estate projects in the boomtown, which weathered a severe property slump as part of the global financial crisis in 2009.

“It soon deleted the online article and posted an apology online Friday. It said the piece was an ‘oversight’ and related to projects dating from 2010 that are ‘now outdated.’

“But by then, the article had already been picked up by other publications, including in Qatar, attracting the ire of Emirati authorities and state-linked media.

“The Dubai media office said Saturday on Twitter that it ‘ruled out a report published by Arabian Business (and) copied by Qatari media’ about the projects.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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