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Al Jazeera English – the mouth of the south?
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
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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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…