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Not content to be the fashion and financial center of the world, Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, wants to become the media center of the world with the launch of twofour54 media park. The city already has some heavy hitters committed to locating to this burgeoning area. The companies working on the twofour54 Abu Dhabi media park expansion are CNN, the book publishers HarperCollins and Random House, the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Financial Times and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charity arm of the financial news giant Thomson Reuters.  Officials from these companies joined local officials in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to announce they would take space on a new 200,000-square-meter campus, called the Abu Dhabi Media Zone, that the government is building for foreign media companies. The campus is intended to be an incubator that will mix Western media companies with billions in Middle Eastern oil money. It will offer training programs for journalists and filmmakers from the region but.
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