Western Influences
The Gazette’s management, however, survived. In 2003, Ahmed Al-Yousef, then the Saudi Gazette’s editor-in-chief, began bringing in experienced Western-trained journalists, which had been absent for many years, to help run the newsroom. He first hired Rhamzi Khoury, an American citizen of Palestinian descent.
Khoury established a journalism training program for Saudi men and women to learn Western-style news reporting, newspaper design and editing. Among the program's students were Saudis Sabria Jawhar, who now writes for the Huffington Post and is a columnist for the Arab News.
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