Sky News Arabia has launched a training programme aimed at encouraging UAE nationals to join its staff at its Abu Dhabi studios, The National has reported. "The media profession hasn't traditionally been one of the most attractive careers for young Emirati professionals to pursue," said Adrian Wells, the launch director of Sky News Arabia. "It's much more likely that they would have been attracted into business, or maybe PR, or certainly engineering." 

Zawya Dow Jones reports that U.K. pay television operator British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (BSY.LN) said Monday it has struck a joint venture with a private investment company owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan to launch a free-to-air Arabic-language news channel across the Middle East and North Africa region from 2012.