Al Jazeera English (AJE; ar, الجزيرة, translit=al-jazīrah, , literally "The Peninsula", referring to the
Qatar Peninsula
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) is an international 24-hour English-language
news channel
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owned by the
Al Jazeera Media Network
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) (Arabic: الجزيرة, romanized: al-jazīrah, IPA: l (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ , referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is a Qatari international state-owned public media conglomerate headquartered at Qatar Radio and T ...
, which is owned by the monarchy government of
Qatar
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. It is the first English-language
news channel
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to be headquartered in the
Middle East
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. Instead of being run centrally, news management rotates between broadcasting centres in
Doha
Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor, it is home to most of the count ...
and
London
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.
History
The channel was launched on 15 November 2006, at 12:00 PM
GMT
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. It had aimed to begin broadcasting in June 2006 but had to postpone its launch because its
HDTV
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technology was not yet ready. The channel was due to be called ''Al Jazeera International'', but the name was changed nine months before the launch because one of the channel's backers argued that the original Arabic-language channel already had an international scope.
The channel was anticipated to reach around 40 million households, but it far exceeded that launch target, reaching 80 million homes. By 2009, the service could be viewed in every major European market and was available to 130 million homes in over 100 countries via cable and satellite, according to a spokeswoman for the network in Washington.
The channel, however, has poor penetration in the American market, where it has been carried by only one satellite service and a small number of cable networks. Al Jazeera English later began a campaign to enter the North American market, including a dedicated website. It became available to some cable subscribers in New York in August 2011, having previously been available as an option for some viewers in Washington, D.C., Ohio and Los Angeles. The channel primarily reaches the United States via its live online streaming. It is readily available on most major Canadian television providers including
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and
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Press TV
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were the only international English-language television broadcasters with journalists reporting from inside both Gaza and Israel during the 2008–2009 Israel-Gaza conflict. Foreign press access to Gaza has been limited via either Egypt or Israel. However, Al Jazeera's reporters
Ayman Mohyeldin
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and
Sherine Tadros
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were already inside Gaza when the conflict began and the network's coverage was often compared to
CNN
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's initial coverage from inside Baghdad in the early days of the
1991 Gulf War
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.
The channel may also be viewed online. It recommends online viewing at its own websiteLIVE - Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English or at its channel on
YouTube
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* Freeview (New Zealand), a digital satellite and digital terrestrial television platform in New Zealand
*Freeview (UK), ...
on 26 November 2013, and began streaming in HD on YouTube in 2015.
On 1 January 2020, Al Jazeera English debuted a new major graphics package for the first time since the channel launched to coincide with remodeled main Doha studio, the last main studio of the channel's three in Doha, London, and Washington D.C. to receive an upgrade since the channel's launch in 2006.
Al Jazeera America
On 3 January 2013, Al Jazeera Media Network announced that it had purchased
Current TV
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in the United States and would be launching an American news channel. 60% of the channel's programming would be produced in America while 40% would be from Al Jazeera English. That was later changed at the request of pay-television providers to almost 100% American programing. Regardless, Al Jazeera America maintained a close working relationship with Al Jazeera English. The channel aired ''Newshour'' in the morning and midday hours and cut to live Al Jazeera English coverage of large breaking international news stories outside of that. Al Jazeera English programmes ''
Witness
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'', ''Earthrise'', '' The Listening Post'', ''Talk To Al Jazeera,'' ''Al Jazeera Correspondent'' and '' 101 East'' along with ''
Al Jazeera Investigates
''Al Jazeera Investigative Unit'' formerly, Al Jazeera Investigates, the outward facing name for journalists from Al Jazeera Media Network's Investigative Journalism Directorate.
The Investigative Unit
The Investigative Unit has bureaux in Doha, ...
'' regularly aired on Al Jazeera America.
On 13 January 2016, Al Jazeera America announced that the network would be terminated on 12 April 2016, citing the "economic landscape".
Al Jazeera UK
In 2014, Al Jazeera moved its UK London operations including its newsroom, studios and shows from Knightsbridge to its new space on floor 16 of
The Shard
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. The last day of broadcasting from the Knightsbridge studios was September, 12th 2014. The space was officially opened on 3 November 2014, with the first Newshour broadcast on 10 October 2014. The new facility is capable of running an entire channel, independently of the Doha hub.
In 2013
Al Jazeera Media Network
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) (Arabic: الجزيرة, romanized: al-jazīrah, IPA: l (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ , referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is a Qatari international state-owned public media conglomerate headquartered at Qatar Radio and T ...
began planning a new channel called ''Al Jazeera UK''. If launched, the British channel would broadcast for five hours during prime time as cut-in UK content aired on Al Jazeera English.
Programmes
In addition to those listed below, Al Jazeera English runs various programmes that are either entirely non-recurrent or consist of just a limited number of parts ( miniseries format known as Special Series). All self-owned programmes, including former shows are shown in their entirety on Al Jazeera's website and YouTube.
Licensed documentaries are available only on the website for a limited period of time, however. Currently running programmes on the channel are:
*'' 101 East'' – the weekly documentary strand for issues of particular importance across Asia and for people of Asian origins elsewhere. Presenters or hosts have included
Teymoor Nabili
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The Signal aims to be a news and research platform covering issues relating to the ASEAN region.
Nabili is also the host and ...
and
Fauziah Ibrahim
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Career
Ibrahim started her career as a producer and presenter at ''6AM RadioWest'', then as a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Perth, W ...
*'' Al Jazeera Investigations'' – documentaries arising from the work of the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit.
*''Counting the Cost'' – the weekly look at business and finance.Counting the Cost Al Jazeera English Previously hosted by Kamahl Santamaria.
*''
Empire
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'' – a monthly programme exploring global powers and their policies. A discussion with host
Marwan Bishara
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and his guests
*''
Fault Lines
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'' – the documentary series focused on the forgotten and the unreported aspects of life in the United States. Presented by: Josh Rushing, Sebastian Walker,
Wab Kinew
Wabanakwut "Wab" Kinew (; born December 31, 1981), ''
Zeina Awad
Zeina Awad ( ar, زينة عوض) is a Lebanese/Canadian news correspondent who used to co-host ''Fault Lines
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.
*''Head To Head'' – A tough questioning interview programme presented by
Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British-American political journalist, broadcaster and author of Indian descent.
Hasan has been the host of ''The Mehdi Hasan Show'' on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.
In 2 ...
. Mostly filmed at
Oxford Union
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.
*'' Inside Story'' – the daily investigation and analysis of a topical issue, with the aid of three guests from within and outside of the country in question.
Jane Dutton
Jane Dutton is a South African broadcast journalist, who worked for Al Jazeera English.
Career
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and
Shiulie Ghosh
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Shiulie formerly worked for the BBC, ITN and Aljazeera. She moderates d ...
are regular hosts, but most of the Doha-based news-presenters have also taken the chair, including: Dareen Abughaida, Stephen Cole,
Adrian Finighan
Adrian Richard Finighan (born 20 December 1964) is a Welsh journalist, working as a presenter and reporter for the television channel Al Jazeera English (AJE). He is now based at AJE's World headquarters in Doha but has also presented programme ...
,
David Foster
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, Divya Gopalan, Veronica Pedrosa, Kamahl Santamaria, Folly Bah Thibault.
*'' The Listening Post'' – analysis of how the other news organizations are covering the stories of the week, plus examination of viewer-submitted news. Created, showrun, and presented from London by Richard Gizbert.
*''My Zimbabwe'' - series about people living in the country such as Elias Libombo and writer Petina Gappah.
*''News'':
** World news live from Al Jazeera's Doha broadcast centre
** World news live from Al Jazeera's London broadcast centre
** ''
Newshour
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'' – an hour of world news and sport hosted from both of Al Jazeera's broadcast centres.
**''Newsgrid'' − an interactive news and live post. Launched on 14 November 2016 as part Of Al Jazeera English's 10 Year Anniversary of broadcast. Also airs on
Facebook Live
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YouTube
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Channel.
*'' People & Power'' – a biweekly programme, originally presented by Dr. Shereen El Feki.
*'' TechKnow'' – weekly show showcasing bright spots and innovations in the world of science and technology in the United States and how they are changing lives. Segments are recorded in the field by a group of young, tech-savvy contributors with diverse backgrounds in science and technology.
*''The Bottom Line'' - a weekly discussion show moderated by
Steven Clemons
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Steve Clemons at the Al Jazeera's studios in Washington, DC. With different guests each week, the show delves into "the big issues" facing American society.
*'' The Stream'' – a discussion programme focused on
social media
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, daily from Monday to Thursday. Hosted by
Femi Oke
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Early life and education
Femi Oke was born in London, England, to Nigerian parents of the Yoruba ethnic group. She is a graduate of Birmingham University, where ...
and Malika Bilal, usually with one guest in the studio and a couple on Skype. An issue, itself often viewer-generated, is discussed by the team and viewers can contribute with comments on Twitter or Facebook, with some occasionally invited to join in on Skype.
*''Talk to Al Jazeera '' – extended studio interviews with people of influence from around the world:
**Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra
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of Thailand talked to: ''Veronica Pedrosa''
*''Viewfinder'' – Fresh perspectives through the lens of local filmmakers from around the globe.
*''
Witness
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'' – the daily-turned-weekly documentary-slot for films by the best of the world's independent film-makers. The strand aims to shine a light on the events and people long-forgotten by the global media and on those that never merited a mention in the first place.
*'' UpFront'' – hosted by
Marc Lamont Hill
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Hill is the host of '' Up ...
, discussion, debate and analysis programme from Washington, D.C.
*''AJ Go : Digital Series''- To have their grip on changing landscape of media and journalism Al Jazeera has introduced a bunch of mini series on social media platform. It basically focuses on analysis of social trends happening in different parts of world. They offer a humane view of seeing things rather than some hardcore political and dogmatized perspective. The objective is to extract some meaningful insight from raw stories taking place everyday which the mainstream media would have ignored otherwise. They include programmes like- ''Start Here'', ''Close Up'', ''Fork The System'', ''All Hail'', ''Media Theorised'', ''NewsFeed'', ''Between Us'', ''Project Force'', ''Fly On The Wall'', ''We Need To Talk'' etc.
Former programmes
These include programmes that have not had a new episode announced since 2014.
*''48'' – weekly show hosted by
Teymoor Nabili
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The Signal aims to be a news and research platform covering issues relating to the ASEAN region.
Nabili is also the host and ...
; Asian politics, business and current affairs
*''Everywoman'' – hosted by
Shiulie Ghosh
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*''Inside Iraq'' – coverage of the Iraq War, hosted by Jasim Al-Azzawi
*''Riz Khan'' – daily (Mon-Thu) viewer participation show, hosted by Riz Khan. Similar to CNN's ''
Larry King Live
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Mainly aired from CNN's Los Angeles ...
''
**''Riz Khan One on One'' – Riz Khan sits down with a single guest for an extended interview
*''Africa Investigates'' – African journalists risk their lives in order to reveal the truth about corruption and abuse across the continent
*''Sportsworld'' – a daily
sports
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programme hosted on rotation by members of Al Jazeera's sports team
*'' The Café'' – a discussion programme, hosted by
Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British-American political journalist, broadcaster and author of Indian descent.
Hasan has been the host of ''The Mehdi Hasan Show'' on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.
In 2 ...
.
* ''Inside Story America'' – version of Inside Story focused on the United States.
*''
The Fabulous Picture Show
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'' – hosted by Amanda Palmer, offers some interviews and reports on movies, actors and directors.
*''The Frost Interview ''(previously
Frost Over The World
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) – this was hosted by David Frost. Frost died in 2013, and show still aired posthumously with the family's consent.
International bureaux
In addition to its two main broadcast centres, Al Jazeera English itself has 21 bureaux around the world that gather and produce news. It also shares resources with its
Arabic
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-language sister channel's 42 bureaux, Al Jazeera Balkan's bureaux and Al Jazeera Turk's bureaux for 70 bureaux. This is a significant difference from the present trend:
Al Jazeera presenter may also alternate between broadcast centres. All channels also share English-speaking correspondents with
Al Jazeera Arabic
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Al Jazeera Balkans
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Richelle Carey
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Carey was previously a news anchor for HLN and correspondent for ...
,
Jane Dutton
Jane Dutton is a South African broadcast journalist, who worked for Al Jazeera English.
Career
;eNCA
In July 2018 Jane joined eNCA presenting her show Tonight with Jane Dutton in the 8pm weekday slot which is broadcast from Johannesburg.
;Al Ja ...
,
Adrian Finighan
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Darren Jordon
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, Laura Kyle, Raheela Mahomed, Rob Matheson, Sohail Rahman, Folly Bah Thibault
Sports Desk: Andy Richardson
Weather Team:
Richard Angwin
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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 Gloucester ...
,
Everton Fox
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Career
Everton A. Fox worked for the t ...
,
Steff Gaulter
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Gaulter won a place at University of Cambridge in 1994 where she was awarded an MA in Physics, gaining the University's top marks for the fin ...
Zeina Khodr
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Career
Khodr has been a news correspondent, in national and international news, for over 15 years. She has worked for sever ...
Clayton Swisher
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Countries and Bureaux:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Correspondents:
''West Africa:'' Nicolas Haque (Senegal); Ahmed Idris &
Yvonne Ndege
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(Nigeria);
''East Africa:'' Catherine (Wambua-)Soi;
''Southern Africa:'' Haru Mutasa; Tanya Paige;
Countries and Bureaux:
Europe
Broadcast Centre: ''London:''
The Shard
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Barbara Serra
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, Lauren Taylor
Programme presenter: Richard Gizbert
Correspondents & Reporters: Neave Barker, Natacha Butler (Paris), Paul Brennan, Rory Challands (Moscow),
David Chater
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Femi Oke
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Early life and education
Femi Oke was born in London, England, to Nigerian parents of the Yoruba ethnic group. She is a graduate of Birmingham University, where ...
Marc Lamont Hill
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Hill is the host of '' Up ...
Wab Kinew
Wabanakwut "Wab" Kinew (; born December 31, 1981), ''
Alan Fisher Alan Fisher may refer to:
* Alan Fisher (broadcast journalist)
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For many years he worked at GMTV, but now works for international news channel Al Jazeera English, where he is ...
, Kimberly Halkett, Daniel Lak, Shihab Rattansi, Rob Reynolds, Kristen Saloomey,
Casey Kauffman
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Kauffman graduated from Stanford University in 2000 with a degree in political science, and in 2 ...
''South America:'' Lucia Newman
Countries and Bureaux
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Chicago
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New York City
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Los Angeles
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California
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Miami
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,
Florida
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*
San Francisco
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California
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Toronto, Ontario
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, Canada
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Mexico City
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*2015–present: Giles Trendle
On-air staff
Al Jazeera English uses a combination of full-time 'staffers' and local freelancers. So long as the journalists are appearing – or are providing credited commentaries – regularly on-air, no distinction has been made as to their contractual arrangements. However, those who have received a recent on-air profile and whose names therefore appear in bold, may well be assumed to be on the staff.
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ABC News
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Marwan Bishara
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Richelle Carey
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– presenter: ''Newshour: Doha''
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David Chater
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(Kanal Pik) – correspondent: ''Europe''
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CNN International
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Jane Dutton
Jane Dutton is a South African broadcast journalist, who worked for Al Jazeera English.
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Adrian Finighan
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(CNN) – presenter: ''Newshour: Doha''
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Everton Fox
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Career
Everton A. Fox worked for the t ...
(BBC World) – weather-presenter: Doha
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Mohamed Fahmy
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– Cairo Bureau Chief: ''Egypt''
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Steff Gaulter
Steff Gaulter (born 1976 in Sway, Hampshire) is an English weather forecaster for Al Jazeera English.
Gaulter won a place at University of Cambridge in 1994 where she was awarded an MA in Physics, gaining the University's top marks for the fin ...
(Sky News, UK Met Office) – weather-presenter: Doha
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Shiulie Ghosh
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Shiulie formerly worked for the BBC, ITN and Aljazeera. She moderates d ...
Jennifer Glasse
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NBC
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Peter Greste
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Global News
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Marc Lamont Hill
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Fox News
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Fauziah Ibrahim
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Darren Jordon
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(BBC World) – presenter: ''Newshour: Doha''
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Casey Kauffman
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Kauffman graduated from Stanford University in 2000 with a degree in political science, and in 2 ...
– correspondent: ''USA''
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Zeina Khodr
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Career
Khodr has been a news correspondent, in national and international news, for over 15 years. She has worked for sever ...
– correspondent: ''Lebanon''
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Phil Lavelle
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Career
Lavelle was a trainee journalist with Granada Television, bef ...
TV3 News
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Yvonne Ndege
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Femi Oke
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Early life and education
Femi Oke was born in London, England, to Nigerian parents of the Yoruba ethnic group. She is a graduate of Birmingham University, where ...
Marga Ortigas
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, BBC World, CNN International) – news-presenter (Doha) and correspondent: ''East Asia''
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Elizabeth Puranam
Elizabeth Puranam is an Al Jazeera anchor, journalist and India correspondent.
Biography
Puranam worked at TVNZ (Television New Zealand) and the news desk at TV3 (now Three). She can read and write in Arabic and can speak Hindi and Telugu.
Pura ...
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Fault Lines
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Barbara Serra
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Serra has worked for the BBC, Sky News and was a pr ...
(Sky News) – presenter: ''Newshour: London''
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Andrew Simmons
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– correspondent: ''East Africa & Near East''
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Clayton Swisher
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Sherine Tadros
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France 24
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Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Mo ...
Fault Lines
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Jacob Ward
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Ghida Fakhry
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Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
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Rageh Omaar
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Jane Arraf
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Steve Gaisford
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In September 2009 Gaisford launched new company Chloros which focuses on using well known faces as online web presenters.
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Five
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Al Jazeera Media Network
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''correspondents also appearing on AJE:''
* Dena Takruri – With AJ+
Key
AJI Unit – Al Jazeera Investigative Unit
Former presenters and correspondents
Those who have retired, died, left, or resigned from Al Jazeera Media Network completely.
* Jasim Al-Azzawi
* Laila Al Shaikhli
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Derrick Ashong
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Zeina Awad
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Brendan Connor
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* Franc Contreras
* Dr. Shereen El Feki
* Elizabeth Filippouli
* Lisa Fletcher – now at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.
* ''Sir'' David Frost (1939–2013)
* Imran Garda
* Tony Harris (journalist), Tony Harris
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Mehdi Hasan
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Hasan has been the host of ''The Mehdi Hasan Show'' on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.
In 2 ...
– now at Peacock (streaming service), Peacock
* Avi Lewis
* Hamish Macdonald (broadcaster), Hamish Macdonald
* Supa Mandiwanzira
* Dave Marash
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Ayman Mohyeldin
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Teymoor Nabili
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Nabili is also the host and ...
* Anand Naidoo
* Arthur Neslen
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Rageh Omaar
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* Shahnaz Pakravan
* Amanda Palmer (film executive), Amanda Palmer
* Cal Perry
* Mark Seddon
* Mónica Villamizar
;''Al Jazeera America:''
* Chris Bury
* Joie Chen
* Ash-har Quraishi
* Roxana Saberi
* Ray Suarez
* John Henry Smith (reporter), John Henry Smith
* Cara Santa Maria
* Raheela Mahomed
Recruitment
The late veteran British broadcaster David Frost joined Al Jazeera English in 2005 to host his show ''Frost Over the World''.
Former BBC and CNN anchor Rizwan Khan, Riz Khan, who previously had been the host of the CNN talk show ''Q & A (U.S. talk show), Q&A'', also joined. He hosts his shows ''Riz Khan'' and ''Riz Khan's One on One''.
Former United States Marine Corps, U.S. Marine Josh Rushing joined Al Jazeera in September 2005. He had been the press officer for the United States Central Command during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and in that role had been featured in the documentary ''Control Room (film), Control Room''. When subsequently joining Al Jazeera, Rushing commented that "In a time when American media has become so nationalized, I'm excited about joining an organization that truly wants to be a source of global information...." Rushing worked from the Washington DC broadcasting centre until the formation of Al Jazeera America, he now works from AJAM's San Francisco hub.
Former CNN and BBC news anchorwoman and award-winning journalist Veronica Pedrosa also joined the team, along with CNN producer James Wright, and Kieran Baker, a former editor and producer for CNN, who had been acting general manager, Communications and Public Participation for ICANN. On 2 December 2005, Stephen Cole, a senior anchor on BBC World and ''Click Online'' presenter, announced he was joining Al Jazeera International.
The network announced on 12 January 2006 that former ''Nightline (US news program), Nightline'' correspondent Dave Marash would be the co-anchor from their Washington studio. Marash described his new position as "the most interesting job on Earth".
On 6 February 2006, it was announced that the former BBC reporter Rageh Omaar would host the weeknight documentary series, ''Witness''.
The managing director for Al Jazeera English was previously
Tony Burman
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, who replaced Nigel Parsons in May 2008. The current managing director is Al Anstey.
In mid 2014 Al Jazeera English froze employment of both permanent and freelance staff for its Qatar network and cut freelance pay rates by 30-40% without warning, while at the same time Al Jazeera lodged a $150 million claim for compensation against Egypt, arguing that by arresting and attacking Al Jazeera journalists, seizing the broadcaster's property and jamming its signal, the Egyptian government has violated its rights as a foreign investor in the country and put the $90 million it has invested in Egypt since 2001 at risk.
Al Jazeera Investigative Unit
Formed in 2010, in its own words: ''the role of Al Jazeera Investigations is not to report the news, but to make the news''.
The Unit, is based at the Network headquarters in
Doha
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, but also has representation in
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and Washington, DC. The unit is an
Al Jazeera Media Network
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asset and its reports appear equally on the other channels, tailored appropriately for the relevant language and audience. The documentaries are presented as specials under their own strand: ''
Al Jazeera Investigates
''Al Jazeera Investigative Unit'' formerly, Al Jazeera Investigates, the outward facing name for journalists from Al Jazeera Media Network's Investigative Journalism Directorate.
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''.
The Unit's investigations have included the documentary ''What Killed Arafat?'' which explains how Yasser Arafat died. This film won a CINE Golden Eagle Award and was nominated for a BAFTA. In 2013, Al Jazeera released a follow-up named "Killing Arafat" which revealed findings of scientific analysis of the exhumed remains of the Palestinian leader that discovered traces of polonium in his bones. The Arafat findings led news agendas globally.
Other major investigations have included:
* ''How to Sell a Massacre'', in which concealed cameras record an Australian political party promising to soften anti-gun laws while seeking millions in political funding from America's gun lobby.
* ''Generation Hate'', which exposes secret links between one of France's largest political parties and a movement calling for the expulsion of Muslims from Europe.
* ''Football's Wall of Silence'', which investigates the deadly scandal of long-term sexual abuse of young players in British football.
* ''Broken Dreams'': The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which revealed that Boeing's workers feared to fly the plane they build, citing quality concerns and alleging drug use on the job.
* ''The Labour Files'', a four-part series based on what it claimed to be the "largest leak of documents in British political history" which aims to show that "a coup by stealth" was conducted against the Labour Party (UK)'s elected leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
The current manager of Investigative Journalism for the Al Jazeera Media Network is Phil Rees. Before that, it was Clayton Swisher. Other leading figures include: Peter Charley, Will Thorne, Deborah Davies, Will Jordan, Simon Boazman, David Harrison, Kevin Hirten, James Kleinfeld and Jason Gwynne.
Availability
The channel is available in many countries, mostly via satellite, sometimes via cable. The channel is also available online. Al Jazeera English provides a free HD stream on its website for unlimited viewing. It is available free worldwide. They also provide a free stream on their YouTube page. Previously, before Al Jazeera provided an official stream, a low quality RealVideo stream was available for viewing. Al Jazeera news segments are frequently included on the American public television program Worldfocus. Al Jazeera can also be streamed on any iOS or Android (operating system), Android device with an internet connection using a free application.
Al Jazeera English is also available on connected TV and OTT streaming services like Pluto TV and Haystack News.
Along with a free unlimited high-quality stream on the official Al Jazeera English website, Online subscriptions allowing unlimited viewing may be purchased from Jump TV, RealPlayer, and VDC. Headlines from Al Jazeera English are available on Twitter.
Al Jazeera English's website also contains news reports and full episodes of their programs that can be viewed for free on their website. The videos are hosted by YouTube, where viewers can also go to find the videos.
Europe
Al Jazeera English is available in the UK and Ireland on
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channel 235, Sky UK, Sky channels 513 and 880, Freesat channel 203 and Virgin Media channel 622.
The channel initially began test streaming Al Jazeera English (then called "Al Jazeera International") in March 2006 on Hot Bird, Astra 1E, Hispasat, AsiaSat3S, Eutelsat 28A and Panamsat PAS 10. Telenors Thor, Türksat and Eutelsat 25A were added to the satellites carrying it. Eutelsat 28A carried the test stream on frequency 11.681 under the name "AJI".
Africa
Al Jazeera English is available in Sub Saharan Africa mainly via DStv and StarTimes' satellite and terrestrial TV platforms.
It is also available Free-to-air, FTA on satellites like Belintersat 51.5°E and Nilesat 201.
In Northern Africa, Al Jazeera English is available on telcos like Etisalat. It is also available via satellite, on Badr°26E and various local cable operators.
Oceania
In New Zealand, Al Jazeera English is available 24 hours a day on Freeview (New Zealand) channel 16 and Sky (New Zealand) channel 90. From October 2013, Freeview (New Zealand) broadcast on the Kordia operated free-to-air DVB-T terrestrial network. Prior to the December 2012 analog switchoff Triangle TV re-broadcast various Al Jazeera programmes in Auckland on its free-to-air UHF channel. TV One (New Zealand), TV One was going to replace BBC World with this service during their off-air hours of 01:30 to 06:00 from 1 April 2013, however opted to run infomercials instead.
Asia
In April 2010, Al Jazeera English was taken off air in Singapore Singtel TV with unspecified reasons, according to the official Al Jazeera English website.
On 7 December 2010, Al Jazeera said its English language service has got a downlink license to broadcast in
India
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. Satellite and cable companies would therefore be allowed to broadcast Al Jazeera in the country. The channel launched on Dish TV in November 2011, and is considering a Hindi-language channel. Tata Play satellite service broadcasts this on Channel 637 (SD) in India.
Americas
On 26 November 2009, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved "a request to add Al Jazeera English (AJE) to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis and amends the lists of eligible satellite services accordingly". Al Jazeera English became available on Rogers Cable, Videotron and
Bell Satellite TV
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on 4 May 2010.
Al Jazeera English is available via satellite across all of North America free to air via Globecast on Galaxy 19 on the Ku band in Digital Video Broadcasting, DVB format. As of 2011, only a small number of Americans were able to watch the channel on their televisions. Among the markets where it was available were Bristol County, Rhode Island, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo and Sandusky, Ohio, Burlington, Vermont, Houston, Texas, and Washington, DC. Industry giant Comcast originally planned to carry Al Jazeera English in 2007, but reversed its decision shortly before the channel's launch, citing "the already-saturated television market". The two major American satellite providers, DirecTV and Dish Network, had similar plans but also changed their minds, with speculation that the decision may have been influenced by allegations by the George W. Bush, Bush Presidency of George W. Bush, administration of "anti-American bias" in the channel.
With Al Jazeera's coverage of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the channel drew acclaim and received renewed attention. ''The New York Times'' reported on 1 February 2011 that 1.6 million U.S. viewers had tuned in via Internet stream, and stated that new discussions were underway with carriers. The following month, it was announced that Al Jazeera entered carriage negotiations with Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Salon.com described the channel's English-language coverage as "mandatory viewing for anyone interested in the world-changing events currently happening in Egypt", while ''Huffington Post'' contributor Jeff Jarvis claimed it was "un-American" for operators to not carry the network. When Al Jazeera covered the 2011 Libyan Civil War, Libyan Civil War, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noted an increasing American audience for the network, saying that "viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and—you know—arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which—you know—is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."
On 1 February 2011, Internet appliance Roku posted on its Facebook page that the English-language Al Jazeera Live would be streaming on Roku devices through a private channel called Newscaster and also through the BBC channel. It permitted the announcement following unrest in Egypt so American viewers can watch the latest events going on in the Middle East. A Roku user must add the private channel Newscaster from the Roku website.
On 1 August 2011, Al Jazeera English began airing 23 hours a day in New York City as part of a sublet agreement with cable channel RISE, a former Spanish-language network, which is carried on WRNN-TV's DT2 subchannel (the other hours were used to meet FCC E/I and local programming guidelines). The network aired on Time Warner Cable on channel 92 and on Verizon FiOS on channel 481.
On 2 January 2013, Al Jazeera announced that it had acquired the U.S.-based cable TV channel
Current TV
Current TV was an American television channel which broadcast from August 1, 2005, to August 20, 2013. Prior INdTV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, with Ronald Burkle, each held a sizable stake in Current TV. Comcast and DirecTV each held a smalle ...
for a reported $500 million. With this acquisition, Al Jazeera launched a new channel, called Al Jazeera America, with a heavy dose of U.S. domestic news along with Al Jazeera English programming and news, to an estimated 40 million U.S. households—putting it in direct competition with
CNN
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, MSNBC and Fox News Channel.
Due to contracts with U.S. cable and satellite carriers for Al Jazeera America the official Al Jazeera English live stream was geo-blocked in the United States on 18 August 2013. With the launch of Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera English was excluded from all US services carrying or providing the channel, including YouTube, with Al Jazeera America material replacing all Al Jazeera English video content and live streams. Most Al Jazeera English video content was no longer officially available in the United States.
In April 2014 the Al Jazeera English show Empire (Al Jazeera TV series), ''Empire'' wasn't Geotargeting, geo-blocked in the United States. Shortly after the programs ''Indian Hospital'', ''Viewfinder'', ''Lifelines: The Quest for Global Health'' and ''Head to Head'' were available also. These programs were the only AJE shows officially non-geoblocked for American viewing during the time that Al Jazeera America was in existence.
With the closure of Al Jazeera America in April 2016 it was expected that the official live stream of Al Jazeera English and access to its programmes would eventually be restored to the United States. The online live stream of Al Jazeera English was made available to viewers in the United States once again in September 2016.
Controversies
Al Jazeera English journalists Egyptian detainment
In December 2013, three Al Jazeera English journalists (
Peter Greste
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,
Mohamed Fahmy
Mohamed Fadel Fahmy ( ar, محمد فاضل فهمي ; born April 27, 1974) is an Egyptian-born Canadian journalist, war correspondent and author. He has worked extensively in the Middle East, North Africa, for CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera Engl ...
and Baher Mohamed) were arrested in their Cairo Marriott International, Marriott hotel rooms and detained on charges of delivering "false news" and "aiding a terrorist organization" in Egypt following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. Al Jazeera was one of several websites to which the Egyptian government blocked access after accusing the network of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was removed from power during the 2013 coup. Egypt has been accused of limiting freedom of expression in an attempt to suppress opposition to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Al Jazeera, BBC World Service, BBC and other news organizations launched the Twitter and social media campaign #FreeAJStaff. Calls from the United Nations, European Union and the United States for the journalists' release were ignored.
Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed had trials adjourned more than ten times. Questionable evidence included video from other news organizations claiming to be from Al Jazeera English, inaudible audio recordings, pictures from a family vacation, a music video and video of sheep.
On 23 June 2014, the journalists were found guilty. Greste and Fahmy were sentenced to seven years in prison, while Mohamed was sentenced to 10 years. The ruling was denounced by fellow journalists, including some at BBC,
CNN
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and ABC News (Australia), ABC News Australia. World leaders from Australia, Canada, United States, United Nations, Switzerland and the United Kingdom deemed the trials politically motivated and called the ruling an attack on freedom of the press. United States Secretary of State John Kerry had been assured of Freedom of the Press, press freedom in Egypt by al-Sisi a day earlier.
Calls for amnesty, clemency and pardons by various governments and news agencies were ignored by the Egyptian government, who said their justice system was independent. There were also calls for the United States to end or suspend funding for the Egyptian military in response to the case.
Greste was released from prison and deported to Australia on 1 February 2015.
On 29 August 2015, Fahmy, Greste and Mohamed were sentenced to three years in prison in a decision heavily criticized internationally. The Government of Canada worked to have Fahmy pardoned and deported. On 23 September 2015, Fahmy and Mohamed were pardoned by el-Sisi, along with 100 other people, and released from prison.
Expulsion from China
Al Jazeera English's longtime China correspondent Melissa Chan was expelled from the country in 2012. The Chinese government did not provide any public reasons but was known to have been unhappy over a documentary the channel had aired on Laogai, China's prison system. On 8 May 2012, reporters from the Beijing press corps asked about the expulsion at the Chinese Foreign Ministry's daily press briefing. Officials did not provide an explanation, and deleted most of the questions when they published their official transcript. Chan later worked at Al Jazeera America.
Criticism
As with Al Jazeera's Arabic counterpart, the network has received criticism from having bias from several sides.
Allegations of anti-American bias
Emmy award-winning journalist Dave Marash, who served as a veteran correspondent for ABC's ''Nightline'', resigned from his position as Washington anchor for Al Jazeera English in 2008. Marash cited "reflexive adversarial editorial stance" against Americans and "anti-American bias".
According to the media scholar Marwan M. Kraidy, when launching the English network, Al Jazeera framed the new channel as a competitor to BBC and CNN, but with coverage oriented towards the Global South.
It is often unclear whether recent discussions of anti-American bias at Al Jazeera are referring also to Al Jazeera English or only to Al Jazeera's Arabic-language channel. There are significant differences in tone between the English and Arabic-language channels. (According to bilingual Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab, "The English channel uses more neutral terminology; the Arab channel is much harsher.") An example of this is a 2011 claim by Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Bill O'Reilly that Al Jazeera is "anti-Semitic" and "anti-American" and a subsequent defense of Al Jazeera against these claims made by former Al Jazeera English anchor Dave Marash on the ''O'Reilly Factor''. Another example concerns statements by former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who in April 2004 denounced Al-Jazeera's Arabic-language coverage of the Iraq War as "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable", but took a more conciliatory tone in a 2011 interview for ''
Frost Over The World
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'', Al Jazeera English's news and public affairs program hosted by David Frost, praising the network as "an important means of communication in the world". The government of which Rumsfeld was part had deliberately targeted Al Jazeera journalists in Iraq and Afghanistan, and discussed bombing its headquarters in Doha.
On 12 October 2008, Al Jazeera English broadcast interviews with people attending a Sarah Palin 2008 United States presidential election, United States presidential election rally in St. Clairsville, Ohio, with interviewees making comments about Barack Obama such as "he regards white people as trash" and "I'm afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over"...The report received over two million views on YouTube. Following this, ''The Washington Post'' ran an op-ed, claiming the news channel was deliberately encouraging "anti-American sentiment overseas", which was criticized by Al Jazeera as "a gratuitous and uninformed shot at Al Jazeera's motives", as the report was just one of "hundreds of hours of diverse coverage". Criticism of an Anti-American bias has been dwindling as their coverage of the Arab Spring received wide acclaim and calls for the network to be added to U.S. television.
Subsequent endeavours have been seen as tests by Al Jazeera to see whether it can get rid of the hostility Americans feel toward it. One example was a day's worth of special coverage marking the 10th anniversary of September 11 attacks, the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. Al Jazeera has also launched '' The Stream'', a show based in Washington D.C. that discusses social media, which targets an American audience. On 2 January 2013, Al Jazeera purchased the American channel
Current TV
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and rebranded as Al Jazeera America in August 2013.
On 13 January 2016, Al Jazeera America announced that the network would be terminated on 12 April 2016, citing the "economic landscape".
Awards
As of May 2017, Al Jazeera English has won more than 150 prizes, medals and awards.
See also
;Competitors
*Al Mayadeen
*BBC World News
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CNN International
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*Deutsche Welle
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France 24
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Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Mo ...
*i24NEWS
*NHK World
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Press TV
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* Philip Seib (ed.): ''Al Jazeera English. Global News in a Changing World''. Palgrave Macmillan, April 2012,
* Josh Rushing: ''Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
*Tine Ustad Figenschou: ''Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape: The South is Talking Back''. Routledge, 2013
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