ABC News’ Lara Setrakian: 21st-century all-platform journalist
Based in Dubai, Setrakian covers the Gulf states and beyond by Paul Chaderjian DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – You’ve seen her on the ABC evening news, on Good Morning America, and on the round-the-clock ABC News Now cable-satellite-Internet network. You’ve heard her voice on ABC News Radio, and you’ve read her bylines from Beirut, Tehran, and cities of the United Arab Emirates, where she resides and works. “Nowadays they say, Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or bye-bye. That’s the line. This is where the growth is. This is where the money is. It’s different and it’s fast pace, and they know they have some sense of what they want,” she explains to me the enigma of Dubai as we sit feet away from the Dubai Marina. “And you see other cities in the Gulf trying to create for themselves the same effect. They’re not trying to copy Dubai. They’re trying to do it their way. Qatar and Doha, Abu Dhabi is trying to do it. Everyone is trying to ramp up. They don’t want to let this oil boom pass by...