Abu Dhabi: Former diplomat to head The National


Issue 963 - 07 Feb 2014 | 1 minute read

The choice of a new editor-in-chief for The National, the Abu Dhabi government-owned English-language paper which launched in 2008 with so much ambition, seems to cap off the newspaper’s slow slide towards the doldrums of reporting under censorship. Mohammed Al-Otaiba, whose appointment was announced on 30 January, has no experience of newspapers, and little of media. Since 2011, he has been head of Image Nation Abu Dhabi, a division of government-owned Abu Dhabi Media, publisher of The National. Before that, he spent 10 years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a diplomat at the United Nations, in Beijing and in London.

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