CNBC opens new studio in Dubai

Dan Murphy

CNBC has opened its new studios in Dubai at the Nasdaq Market Site, reports Julian Clover of Broadband TV News.

Clover reports, “The opening follows the April opening of a new Middle East headquarters at Abu Dhabi Global Market.

“CNBC’s newly appointed Dubai Correspondent, Dan Murphy, will be live daily across the CNBC network. Murphy, who relocates from CNBC’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, will feed into the Capital Connection programme.

“KC Sullivan, President and Managing Director at CNBC International, said: ‘Our Dubai bureau will give further bandwidth to our Headquarters in Abu Dhabi and provide us with the opportunity to enhance our coverage from the region.’

“CNBC also announced it has appointed a number of production, technical operations and digital roles at the new Dubai studios.”

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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.