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Al Jazeera English

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

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James 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.

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James Bays

June 13, 2008

Mis­ter Bays, my old col­league from Five News days, is now ply­ing his trade at Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish. James picked up a second place at the Monte Carlo TV Fest­ival for his report­ing from Afgh­anistan. Here he is from May, 2007:

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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 […]

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So Dave Marash admits he quit Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish after being bumped out of the anchor chair and on to the road. Not exactly how he first explained it. Still, we all have our amour propre, what is inter­est­ing in the CJR piece is his ana­lysis of the shift­ing polit­ics of Qatar (my links in […]

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I try not to pass on every rumour I hear, but on at least two sep­ar­ate occa­sions recently strong hints have been dropped to me that sug­gest a man­age­ment shake up is com­ing soon at Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish. This is code for someone repla­cing CEO Nigel Par­sons. Par­sons has sur­vived much longer than I would have predicted — […]

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