Mideast Sunday
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Felice Friedson is The Media Line's (TML) co-founder and its current President and CEO. In addition to her executive responsibilities, Felice is Executive Producer for TML's radio, television and film productions. Ms. Friedson holds a degree in broadcast communications along with extensive credits in radio and television production. She has worked in many aspects of the broadcast industry, and has created a number of long-running radio programs in a variety of specialties. Ms. Friedson is often asked to participate in forums dealing with women in communications and on topics relating to international news coverage, particularly the Middle East. She is co-host of TML's daily and weekend syndicated radio programs, and frequently appears as a guest commentator on American and European radio and television. In 2005, Ms. Friedson created the concept for what became The Mideast Press Club, an initiative of TML that has achieved great success in bringing Israeli and Palestinian journalists together on a professional basis, fostering cooperation through common goals.
David Harris, TML's Jerusalem Bureau Chief, has been covering the Middle East for more than a decade in all media. He began his career in his native United Kingdom with the BBC where besides daily news coverage he produced documentaries and trained other members of the BBC staff. He moved on to the Middle East where he covered politics and the economy for radio and print media before becoming TML's founding bureau chief. As a highly-regarded and featured commentator for world media, Mr. Harris is frequently seen and heard on media outlets throughout the world, presenting his incisive analyses of events and aspects of the story that are often omitted from traditional news sources.
Michael Friedson is TML's co-founder and current Executive Editor and Director of Media Services. Mr. Friedson has two decades of on-air broadcast experience and has worked professionally in numerous areas of the broadcast medium. He co-anchors TML's daily and weekly radio programs, and is a regular Middle East contributor to the BBC, USA Radio Network, Salem Radio Network, and local ABC and CBS stations. Mr. Friedson is involved in ongoing research on bias and balance in reporting from areas of conflict. He is often seen as a participant in media round-tables and seminars on such topics as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the domestic impact of Middle East events and policies. In addition, Mr. Friedson has lectured on elements of radio production to Palestinian communications graduates.
MidEast Week is America's most comprehensive program concerning events and happenings in the Middle East. From its unique perspective as an American news agency specializing in coverage of the world's most contentious region, The Media Line is unparalleled in its ability to report – not spin – the issues, offering listeners an opportunity to understand the context and background of even the most perplexing issues plaguing the region. As the in-house program of an American agency based in the Middle East, MidEast week is able to share with its listeners its unprecedented access to news makers and its uncanny ability to go behind the headlines. For coverage of Israel and the Palestinian areas to Egypt, Syria, Somalia, Iran and the Gulf, MidEast Week stands alone!
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