Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp., said that media sector have to take more risk to build strong foundation in the Middle-East. Opening media sector for the foreign players and reducing censorship are the way outs for the media sector to flourish in the region.

UAE lawmakers have pulled the National Media Council (NMC) for not mitigating its dependence on the expatriates who are dominating over local Emiratis in terms of jobs in the local media industry.

The Federal National Council (FNC), as reported by Gulf News, said that the country's media watchdog failed to achieve its objectives for promoting the cultural identity of the UAE by recruiting more Emiratis.

Dubai-based Indian language newspaper Gulf Madhyamam has started a yearlong campaign to find most influential expatriates from the South Indian state of Kerala who came in the Gulf state of UAE and finally settled there to be a part of growth story of the oil rich Emirates.

The Chief Editors of local newspapers has asked for the need for having proper coordination and communication between local public and private media establishments and government owned National Media Council (NMC).

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (BQFP) has expressed its commitment to continue its support to encourage writing about Qatar by sponsoring writing programs for students, individuals, Qatar University and other members of the community.

According to a ruling by the court, a popular UAE online magazine has been shut down for a month and the publishers have been ordered to pay Dh10,000 in damages over charges of defamation.

The Abu Dhabi court of Appeals, additionally, also maintained the lower court's ruling under which Hetta, the first UAE e-magazine, has to pay an additional fine of Dh20,000. Hetta was established in the year 1996.

A law launching the Dubai Government Media Office was issued recently by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

The Dubai Ruler's Court will take over the new unit, which comes within efforts to improve channels of communications with the local, Arab and international media community and mobilize resources for delivering an exact image of events in Dubai and providing the Dubai message in a clear, objective and effective style, at par with the highest of international standards.