02/09/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/09/2024 00:27
September 2, 2024
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) has taken significant steps towards aligning its digital and television networks, bringing enhanced content across all platforms in order to better serve its mission and audiences. Click here to read MBN Acting President and CEO Dr. Jeffrey Gemin's note to the MBN staff.
"MBN will be leaner, more efficient, more agile, and ultimately more effective," said Gedmin. "MBN will continue to provide audiences with accurate, honest, and reliable reporting on the news they care most about."
"MBN's mission remains the same: to tell the American story; to cover governance and human rights issues in the region; and to counter the disinformation campaigns of Iran, China, and Russia. The company will ramp up its in-depth, on-the-ground reporting, with even greater emphasis on explanatory and investigative journalism," said Gedmin. "MBN will provide a model for the highest standards of professional journalism."
Highlights of the MBN restructure include:
"I am constantly amazed by the talented, dedicated, and passionate people of MBN," added Gedmin. "These new steps reinforce MBN's commitment to world-class journalism - and to the stories others seem determined to distort or avoid altogether."
"I am proud to be part of MBN," said Interim Board Chair Ambassador Ryan Crocker; "these important changes will allow us to expand and enhance our reporting both in the U.S. and across the region in highly relevant, impactful ways." Crocker added: "What happens in the Middle East is critical to U.S. national security and to core American values, including accountable government, tolerance, and pluralism."
MBN is non-profit corporate media outlet financed by the U.S. government through a grant from U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency. The USAGM serves as a firewall to protect the professional independence and integrity of the broadcasters.
Contact Deirdre Kline
Director of Communications, Alhurra Television, Radio Sawa