War 2.0: the 24/7 English language news front

In the Jer­u­s­alem Post, Mitchell Barak calls for an Israeli Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish. Con­tinue read­ing

Al Jazeera English — the mouth of the south?

Counter-Hegemonic NewsJames Painter has just pro­duced a study called Counter-Hegemonic News [down­load pdf] — look­ing at Qatar’s Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish and Venezuela’s Tele­sur.

I have to say, in the case of AJE, I think both the per­son­nel and the tra­di­tions they draw on are simply those of con­ven­tional for­eign news. Con­tinue read­ing

Al Jazeera: more integration between Arabic and English

My track record on industry gos­sip is so lam­ent­able that I try not to pass on what little I hear. But this rumour of a per­son­nel shift ahoy at Al Jaz­eera, has the ring of cred­ib­il­ity — and it sounds like a sens­ible regroup­ing by the Middle East­ern news network.

Word is that the bur­eau chief of Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish in Lon­don, Sue Phil­lips, will be moved up the cor­por­ate ranks.

Her brief will be to bring together Al Jazeera’s sixty or so Arab and Eng­lish offices around the world. So let’s see…