Times and Telegraph face off in Dubai
By Leah McBride Mensching, Tuesday 30 October 2007 at 21:49 :: Competition :: #779 :: rss
The Times and The Telegraph have taken their Fleet Street rivalries to the desert, this time vying for the attention of the United Arab Emirate's cutting edge business community, Emirates Today Online reported Tuesday.
The Times of London is currently holding a business forum in Dubai, and has been printing 15,000 copies a day in the city since May. On Monday, The Daily Telegraph launched a temporary online edition for Dubai that can be downloaded and printed.
The Times' business editor, James Harding, has brought his staff to Dubai for a week as part of the newspaper's Gulf Business forum. His journalists will stay in the UAE until Sunday to become better acquainted with the country's booming business sector.
“No British newspaper is well sourced in the Gulf in the way you would be in New York or even Tokyo,” Harding told Emirates Today. “The area is transforming itself into a hub for investment, trade, travel and leisure ... We have come here en masse to try to understand one of the world’s biggest unfolding stories.”
An executive from The Telegraph told Emirates Today that its new online version is part of a commercial exercise to promote the paper's Web site; however, The Telegraph has “ no plans to publish a newspaper in Dubai.” The executive, who was not named by Emirates Today said that “this is not a newspaper we are distributing and is not a direct competition to other newspapers.”
The newspaper printed 4,000 copies of Monday's edition, distributing it at hotels and popular areas for leisure.
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