{"id":521793,"date":"2022-09-14T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T04:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=521793"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:09:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:39:26","slug":"uae-newspaper-shut-down-its-staff-fired-after-fuel-price-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uae-newspaper-shut-down-its-staff-fired-after-fuel-price-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE newspaper shut down, its staff fired after fuel price report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story about high fuel prices was safe, editors agreed, even under the strict press laws of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it unleashed a firestorm at Al Roeya newspaper in Dubai. Within days, top editors were interrogated. Within weeks, dozens of employees were fired and the print paper declared dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper\u2019s publisher, Abu Dhabi-based International Media Investments, or IMI, said Al Roeya\u2018s closure stems only from its transformation into a new Arabic language business outlet with CNN. <\/p>\n<p>However, eight people with direct knowledge of the newspaper\u2019s mass firings told The Associated Press that the layoffs came in the immediate aftermath of the article on the UAE\u2019s gas prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story about high fuel prices was safe, editors agreed, even under the strict press laws of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, it unleashed a firestorm at Al Roeya newspaper in Dubai. Within days, top editors were interrogated. Within weeks, dozens of employees were fired and the print paper declared dissolved. The newspaper\u2019s publisher, Abu Dhabi-based International Media Investments, or IMI, said Al Roeya\u2018s closure stems only from its transformation into a new Arabic language business outlet with CNN. However, eight people with direct knowledge of the newspaper\u2019s mass firings told The Associated Press that the layoffs came in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}