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Newshour (Al Jazeera)
''Newshour'' is Al Jazeera English's standard news strand that has been aired since 15 November 2006. With seven editions per day (at 0200, 1000, 1300, 1500, 1800, 2100 and 2300 GMT), ''Newshour'' features a live, 60-minute round-up of the latest in global news and sport. It is usually only produced from either Doha or London, Al Jazeera's broadcast centres, and sometimes linked together. ''Newshour'' was also shown live on Al Jazeera America during its existence in the morning, midday hours, at 1800 ET and would be cut in if a major world news story breaks. In 2006, ''Newshour'' was the first English language news program to be broadcast from the Middle East. Notable presenters Doha *Martine Dennis *Folly Bah Thibault *Dareen Abughaida *Darren Jordon *Rob Matheson *Kamahl Santamaria *Adrian Finighan *Richelle Carey *Halla Mohieddeen *Peter Dobbie *Nick Clark *Kim Vinnell *Sohail Rahman London Presenters *Felicity Barr * Julie MacDonald *Maryam Nemazee * Barbara Serra * La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the testimony of Witness, observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Common topics for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, the Climate change, environment, economy, business, fashion, entertainment, and sport, as well as Wikipedia:Unusual articles, quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning Monarchy, royal ceremonies, Law, laws, Tax, taxes, public health, and Crime, criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technology, Technological and Social change, social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its conten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dareen Abughaida
Dareen Abughaida ( ar, دارين أبو غيدا) is a Palestinian-Lebanese broadcast journalist. Currently working as a presenter for Al Jazeera English, she has also worked for big establishments such as Bloomberg news, CNBC, World Bank, and Qatar Airways. She also worked with the United Nations at several summits. Career Abughaida joined Al Jazeera English in Doha as a news anchor and later anchoring the flagship ''Newshour''. At the station, she has reported on major stories that caught the public eye, such as the Egyptian revolution. She has also covered the resignation of Pope Benedict, the Malaysia Airlines crash, Brexit, and the Palestinian-Israel conflict. Abughaida has also covered the Arab Spring stories and its aftermath. Her coverages have brought significant awareness to various conflicts, especially those between Palestine and Israel. Previously, she worked for Dubai One in the United Arab Emirates and, before that, for Bloomberg and CNBC. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everton Fox
Everton Fox (born 1964 in Cambridge, England) is a British weather presenter, currently working for Al Jazeera English and is notable for being the first ever black weather-presenter to appear on the BBC. Career Everton A. Fox worked for the then Department of Social Security as a civil servant and in 1991 joined the Met Office, completing the forecaster foundation programme in March 2000. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000, working initially on BBC World and BFBS television. He went on to become Radio Five Live's main weather forecaster, and also appeared regularly on BBC News 24 and BBC World. He left the BBC Weather Centre in February 2007 to join Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English (AJE; ar, الجزيرة, translit=al-jazīrah, , literally "The Peninsula", referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is an international 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is own .... References External linksAl Jazeera CV [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Angwin
Richard Angwin is a weather-presenter, currently working for Al Jazeera English. Previously, he presented the weather on BBC Points West from 2000 to 2011. This is the regional local news programme for Bristol, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire which is on BBC ONE weekdays at 1330, 1830 and 2225. Also as a latest series in 2007 "Ask Angwin" featured on Points West answering weather questions. Biography Richard's interest in the weather began during geography lessons at grammar school. After A Levels he joined the Met Office as a weather observer in 1979 and spent the first 10 years of his career at RAF Lyneham, Exeter International Airport and RAF Honington Royal Air Force Honington or more simply RAF Honington is a Royal Air Force station located south of Thetford near Ixworth in Suffolk, England. Although used as a bomber station during the Second World War, RAF Honington is now the RAF Regim .... During this time Richard gained further A Levels and an HNC in Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Taylor (journalist)
Lauren Taylor (born 11 May 1970) is an English broadcast journalist, currently working for Al Jazeera English. Education Taylor was educated at the Lycée international de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She graduated with an MA from the University of Oxford. She then obtained a Diploma in Journalism from the City University in London. As well as her native English, Taylor is fluent in German and Italian and also speaks French'' luently?' and Arabic. Career ;ITV News Taylor joined ITV News in 1992 as a graduate trainee. She covered events such as the death of Princess Diana, the IRA bombing in Manchester, and ETA violence in Spain. In 2004, she became a political correspondent and reported on the 2004 US Presidential Election. The following year, she broadened her experience by becoming an economics correspondent, reporting on a range of business stories. ;Al Jazeera English Taylor has worked for Al Jazeera English since its launch in 2006. Initially, she was based at the main br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Serra
Barbara Serra (; born 19 August 1974) is an Italian-born British-based broadcast journalist and TV newsreader. Serra studied at the London School of Economics, before becoming a journalist. Serra has worked for the BBC, Sky News and was a presenter for Five News. Since 2006 she has been a presenter and correspondent at Al Jazeera English and since 2007 she also worked as a presenter and commentator with the Italian TV network, RAI. Serra was made a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by the Italian President and she has been recognised as one of the 20 most high-profile Italian women internationally by Elle magazine. In 2014, Serra wrote one book titled: (Italians Are Not Lazy). In 2020, Serra made the film: ''Fascism in the Family''. She also writes for the Huffington Post. Early life Serra was born in Milan in 1974, with her father native to Sardinia, and her mother from Sicily. From the age of nine, she was raised in Copenhagen in Denmark. As a result of this upbr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam Nemazee
Maryam Nemazee ( fa, مریم نمازی) is an Iranian British broadcast journalist, currently working with Al Jazeera English. Career Al Jazeera English - London At Al Jazeera English, Nemazee is based at the European broadcast-centre, in London. There she is a presenter on the flagship-programme ''Newshour.'' Previously she worked at the main broadcast-centre in Doha. She has interviewed some of the world's top political and business leaders, including the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker, OPEC Secretary-General Abdallah Salem el-Badri, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Bloomberg Previously, Nemazee was a London-based anchor with Bloomberg Television, presenting on all the main programmes and conducting exclusive interviews and real-time analysis of breaking-news affecting the global markets. She covered major events from the field, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, as well as the MENASA and COMESA events, and focused on trade and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie MacDonald (British Journalist)
Julie Marion MacDonald is a Scottish journalist and presenter, currently working freelance with Al Jazeera English. Career MacDonald trained as a journalist at City University, London. Her radio credits began at LBC – as producer of The Simon Bates Breakfast Show and Nick Ferrari in the Morning. Moving into TV – MacDonald began her TV journalist career (2000–2001) with the ITV News Channel and in 2002 became Channel 5 entertainment correspondent and fronting the channel's flagship breakfast show and news bulletins, including ''Core News'' and ''The Edit'' for ''5 News''. MacDonald moved away from network news in 2003, when she became one of the BBC Liquid News reporters and weekend presenter, reporting on entertainment stories of the day for BBC Three and BBC News. She continued to work in radio as a member of Simon Mayo’s Five Live Panel, a weekly team contributing their views on TV and media news. She occasionally also worked alongside Jono Coleman on LBC's early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Barr
Felicity Barr (born 6 September 1970) is an English broadcast journalist, and former Al Jazeera English news presenter. Radio career Barr trained as a journalist at 2-Ten FM, before she specialised in sports reporting, covering events in sport since 1994 when she worked as a freelance journalist. Television career Five years after starting in radio, she transferred to television and in 1996 joined ITV Meridian as a sports reporter/presenter for the nightly news programme ''Meridian Tonight'', based at studios in Newbury, Berks, as well as presenting for sports programme ''A406.'' Barr moved to the London News Network in 1999, covering sporting events and she also presented LWT's ''Goals Extra'' programme. Barr joined ITV News in 2001 as its first ever female sports correspondent. Her first major assignment was covering the Wimbledon tennis tournament. During her time at ITV News, her role was extended to a relief newsreader on the '' ITV Weekend News'', ''ITV Lunchtime News' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aljazeera London 05
Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera Media Network. The flagship of the network, its station identification, is ''Al Jazeera.'' The patent holding is a "private foundation for public benefit" under Qatari law. Under this organizational structure, the parent receives funding from the government of Qatar but maintains its editorial independence. In June 2017, the Saudi, Emirati, Bahraini, and Egyptian governments insisted on the closure of the entire conglomerate as one of thirteen demands made to the Government of Qatar during the Qatar diplomatic crisis. The channel has been criticised by some organisations as well as nations such as Saudi Arabia for being "Qatari propaganda". Etymology In Arabic, ' literally means "the island". However, it refers here to the Arabian Penins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halla Mohieddeen
Halla Mohieddeen (born 13 October 1979) is a Scottish journalist, broadcaster and television presenter. Biography Mohieddeen was born to a Lebanese father and Scottish mother. She studied Interpreting and Translating at the Heriot-Watt University. She previously presented the ''Morning News'' and ''Middle East Matters'' programmes for Paris-based 24 hour international news channel, France 24. The Heriot-Watt University graduate from the Scottish Borders has also worked for a number of Chinese TV and radio stations, including CCTV, Xinhua News Network Corporation and Beijing Radio 774. From April 2017 to June 2018, she was the anchor of the nightly Scottish news programme '' STV News Tonight'' on STV2. She was a Principal Presenter with Al Jazeera English in Doha. Mohieddeen is multilingual, fluent in English, French, Mandarin Chinese and German. She also has specialist knowledge of International affairs, Scottish and British politics, Chinese politics and society and marine and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richelle Carey
Richelle Carey (born October 13, 1976) is an American broadcast journalist. She is currently an anchor on Al Jazeera English and was previously an anchor for Al Jazeera America. Carey was previously a news anchor for HLN and correspondent for its Prime News broadcast, from May 2006 to June 2013; she joined HLN from KMOV-TV St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to joining KMOV in the summer of 2003, Carey was the morning and afternoon news anchor at the Fox affiliate in Henderson-Las Vegas, Nevada (KVVU). Early life and education Richelle Carey was born in Houston, Texas on October 13, 1971. Carey's mother is a nurse who works with teenagers in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. She first attended Smith College but later graduated from Baylor University in her native Texas, where she earned a bachelor's degree in telecommunications. Career Carey started her television career as an intern at KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas. She was later promoted and became an associate producer at the station. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
