Aboubakr Jamai
| Aboubakr Jamaï أبو بكر الجامعي |
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| Born | 1968 Rabat, Morocco |
| Residence | Aix en Provence, France |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Occupation | Journalist, entrepreneur |
| Organization | Le Journal Hebdomadaire (1996–2010), Assahifa al-Ousbouiya (1997–?), Lakome.com (2011–present) |
| Known for | independent journalism |
| Spouse(s) | Leïla Aït Hmitti |
| Awards | CPJ International Press Freedom Award (2003), Yale World Fellow (2004) |
Aboubakr Jamaï (Arabic: أبوبكر الجامعي; also known as Boubker; born 1968 in Rabat, Morocco) is a Moroccan journalist and banker, and was the publisher of the newspapers Le Journal Hebdomadaire and Assahifa al-Ousbouiya. In 2003, he was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Jamaï's father, Khalid Jamaï, was a well-known journalist who often clashed with King Hassan II and was imprisoned and tortured in 1973.
Aboubakr Jamaï received an MBA from Oxford University and began his own career in the financial industry. In 1993, he co-founded Upline Securities, Morocco's first independent investment bank. He also joined the Executive Secretariat of the Middle East and North Africa Economic Summit as a financial adviser in 1996.
At age 29, he moved into financial journalism, helping to found the Casablanca-based Le Journal Hebdomadaire, a French-language business weekly, in 1997. As a model, Jamaï used the Spanish paper El País because of the way it had started as a weekly paper under Francisco Franco's rule before growing into a media conglomerate.
The journal's circulation was initially small, with the first issue selling only 3,000 copies, primarily to a business audience. However, the journal soon grew by word-of-mouth, attracting a non-business audience and attracting more advertisers. In 1998, Jamaï co-founded its Arabic-language sister publication, Assahifa al-Ousbouiya, designed to appeal to a broader audience.
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