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Just the other day, a nicely dressed young lady was risking her life to cross a 120 km speed-limit dual carriageway. Wearing prescribed glasses, medium heels shoes, and having her purse tightly...

Reading, watching or listening, repeatedly, to the same news articles is hard to swallow. The same style, the same tone, the same people interviewed, the same structure. It is a heartbreaking approach...

In a Royal address, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos encouraged Omanis to provide the required information and to cooperate with the census staff to make the exercise a success. It was the first data...

From an emotional point of view, journalism is a passion. Journalism is to be in love with the art of storytelling. It is to touch people’s heart with information, sharing an opinion, analysing...

Change is a process, not an event, so I heard. Essentially, there is a need to understand people’s expectations, but also the need to consider what a change will mean for people in the future or how...

One gets distressed and vents it on social media. One gets happy, jubilees it on social media. One gets a funny or insulting me and without second thoughts share it. These are some of the impulsive...

Religion and the Internet have rung a bell into my curiosity. In fact, it is media and religion that have hit the first signs of inquiry due to the number of broadcasting material popping up —...

The local media is reporting more openly on child abuse. It has been a no-no issue for a long time; not that it didn’t happen. The matter has been a kind of taboo. The topic becomes even more...

Challenges to journalism do not come just from one area or the other. It comes from multidimensional and simultaneous areas, most notably public trust. It is easier to identify challenges and discuss...

Is there a need to make social media safer for teens and young adults? Are we going paranoia with the broad variety of content that can be harmful? The discussion is getting louder after a series of...

In the last couple of months, I have followed open sources discussing the quality of the media and journalism in our own backyard as well as around the world. Strategies on how best to take advantage...

There was a time when travelling from Ghala to Ruwi would take at least an hour. People would travel on the back of open pick-ups to reach their offices. Going to Madinat Sultan Qaboos was like going...

What is going on? Are people more relaxed with the increase in violence against journalism? Are people more relaxed with the decline of reportage on important issues to society? Are we being seriously...

here are times when it feels as if we still need to teach how to lit a fire using stones while most people are already using laser. All because a little girl, named Mona, who is turning three years’...

What an amazing time we are experiencing with social media. Anyone can become a virtual celebrity or make bucks by just posting a video, text or a photo of a product or even expressing an opinion....

Public opinion in the 18th Century France takes me on a journey of reflections in search of parallels in the 21st century. In her book, Arlette Farge reminds me that words have meaning, particularly...

There is no ‘news’ on the fact that the temperature is getting higher; that climate change is affecting economies, health, communities, and a myriad of other factors. Droughts will intensify, heat...

A media student and I were talking about artificial intelligence, on thinking out of the box, and talking computers. He was showing me one of his bot projects. A bot is a software application...

Sonia Ambrosio - soniambrosio@gmail.com - Spam phone calls are a nuisance. It is time-consuming, it is annoying and it is a massive threat to privacy. Besides, it can be dangerous. Why do we...

Cameras are rolling in several parts of Oman: from Mutrah, Barka, to Sur, Musandam and Jebel Akhdar. Oman is officially positioning itself as a top filming destination — not just for Hollywood but...