Al Jazeera

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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Just a quick heads up on a blog I’ve star­ted sub­scrib­ing too. It’s by Al Jaz­eera Head of New Media Mohamed Nab­abhay. Mohamed has pos­ted some nice present­a­tions and other goodies.

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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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