I am leaving today to go to Dubai again.
This Sunday, the Arab Media Group (AMG) is launching the region’s first English business daily newspaper.
Emirates Business 24/7 is INNOVATION’s first project in the United Arab Emirates.
We’re also working on two other newspaper projects that will take off in the first months of 2008.
The INNOVATION team in Dubai has been:
Juan Senor and I as the project directors.
Gabriel Sama (a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal) as the project manager.
Marta Botero developed the original editorial model (”The Life of Business. The Business of Life”)
Guillermo Nagore (a freelancer for The New York Times) did the superb graphic design prototypes.
Patrick Dunne assisted Guillermo in the design production.
Michael Agar (graphics editor of The Independent on Sunday) was in charge of the infographics.
Other INNOVATION consultants involved during this 12-month process were Edward Schumacher-Matos (former editor of The Wall Street of the Americas), Stephen Quinn, and Michael Fairhead (former production director of News International in London).
All of us have been working under the great leadership of AMG’s CEO, Abdulatif Alsayegh (recently featured in The Times of London as one of the 25 most influential business leaders of the Gulf).
Riyad Mickdad is the editor-in-chief with 21 years of experience in business journalism in the region.
Emirates Business 24/7 will have one of the region’s most creative visual journalists with Adonis Durado as the Visual Editor, and Luis Chumpitaz as the Graphics Editor.
The new paper will be a 48-page, full-color tall tabloid.
In the next few days I will show you some of the first prototypes and on Sunday, the inaugural issue.
Gabriel, Marta, Guillermo and the whole INNOVATION team have done a great, great job again!