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Neom Names Michael Lynch as Acting Media Head Amid Report Alleging Racism and Disregard for Worker Safety
A Wall Street Journal report has leveled accusations of racism and disregard for worker safety at Wayne Borg, head of media at Saudi Arabia’s Neom.
A Wall Street Journal report has leveled accusations of racism and misogyny at Wayne Borg, head of the media hub at Neom, Saudi Arabia’s futuristic megacity in-the-making. The Journal report more broadly looks at several executives accused of engaging in inappropriate workplace behavior andfostering unsafe work conditionsin various sectors at Neom, the postmodern desert city known as “the Line” planned to run 105 miles and be powered solely by renewable energy. Since taking on the job of running Neom’s media hub in 2019 Borg — whose official title at Neom is managing director of media, entertainment, culture and fashion Industries — has attracted a range of large-scale productions spanning from Rupert Wyatt’s long-gestating $150 million Hollywood tentpole “Desert Warrior,” starring Anthony Mackie and Ben Kingsley, to Rajkumar Hirani’s Bollywood blockbuster “Dunki” starring Shah Rukh Khan, and Saudi-owned MBC Studios’ 10-part fantasy series “Rise of the Witches,” the biggest TV series ever to be made in the region.
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