''The Stream'' is a TV and online programme that airs from Monday to Thursday, simultaneously live on

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and on

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. It is branded as the space where “Al Jazeera's global audience becomes a global community” and is the only show on the channel that features real-time interaction with its audience. The show is hosted by

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, a British-Nigerian journalist who has previously worked for

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About the show

''The Stream'' covers international news and culture, and features heavy audience interaction. Viewers may watch live on YouTube, where they can speak directly to a producer in a live chat that runs throughout the show. Presenter Femi Oke brings questions and comments from YouTube into the live show and puts them directly to show guests. The programme also hosts daily live conversations on it
Instagram account
often featuring guests who have strong Instagram followings. The audience can also ask questions of those guests. The show has more tha
200,000 followers
on

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, where it solicits opinions on the topics it covers and gathers tweets to feature in the show. The programme positions itself as a conversational show, not an interview show, and guests are encouraged to talk directly to each other without the host's prompting. The show's Executive Producer is Barry Malone, a former

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correspondent who reported from the Horn and East Africa, and from Tunisia, Libya and Iraq. He is the former Acting Managing Editor of Al Jazeera's English-language website

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. ''The Stream'' is particularly popular on the African continent and often trends on Twitter in countries such as Nigeria, Ethiopia and Uganda.

Al Jazeera America version

A separate American version of ''The Stream'' was featured on

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. It was produced from

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and hosted by Lisa Fletcher and Wajahat Ali. The show was identical in style to its Al Jazeera English counterpart, including being shot from the same studio and set in Washington D.C. It ceased production in 2016 ahead of the closure of Al Jazeera America in April of the same year.

Awards

In 2017, ''The Stream'' won a silver medal for best Online News Program at the New York Festivals Best Television and Film Awards. In 2014, it won a

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for Best Online Film in the News and Politics category for the show 'Meme-ifying Black Interviewees'. ''The Stream'' was nominated for two other Webbys the same year. In 2013, It was awarded the

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for Outstanding News Talk Show and secured commendations at the Online Media Awards for Outstanding Digital Team and Best Twitter Feed. In 2012, ''The Stream'' won a Webby Award for People's Choice in news and politics in the online film and video category, a

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award for Most Innovative Programme, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for New Approach to News and Documentary Programming. It has had an

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nomination for “Planned News Events” and a

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nomination for "Outstanding TV Journalism."

References

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