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CNN launches Middle East business news show

CNN is launching a show called “CNN Marketplace Middle East” across its TV and digital platforms.

The show will start Sept. 18 as a monthly show on CNN International, presented by anchor and correspondent Eleni Giokos

“CNN Marketplace Middle East” will also include a dedicated new digital section on CNN Business and CNN Arabic.

Major focuses for the CNN Marketplace franchise are technology, sustainability, automotive and mobility, health and medicine, energy, and e-commerce.

“Audiences around the globe are eager to find out more about how businesses and countries are applying innovation and seeing economic growth as the world looks beyond the pandemic,” said Ellana Lee, senior vice president of CNN International, in a statement. “The Middle East has a unique story to tell as it applies new technologies, spearheads many areas of transformation and undergoes economic diversification.”

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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