Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNBC to expand its Middle East operations

CNBC announced Monday the expansion of its Middle East operations with a new studio set to open in October at Nasdaq Dubai.

The new studio will be at MarketSite, part of Nasdaq Dubai’s new offices in the Dubai International Financial Centre.

CNBC currently broadcasts its morning show “Capital Connection,” hosted by anchor Hadley Gamble, from its headquarters at Abu Dhabi Global Market. The network’s new Dubai studio will work in concert with programming across Abu Dhabi, Singapore and London.

“Nasdaq Dubai is at the epicenter of Dubai’s business community making it the ideal location to deepen our focus on telling the regional business story to our global audience,” said KC Suillivan, president and managing director of CNBC International, in a statement. “This new studio will quickly become an integral part of our daily business news programming around the word.”

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.