{"id":840,"date":"2008-03-06T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2008-03-06T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T17:10:00","slug":"al-jazeera-english-management-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/03\/al-jazeera-english-management-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera English: management shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span> 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 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Al Jazeera English<\/span>. This is code for someone replacing CEO <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Nigel Parsons<\/span>.<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<p>Parsons has survived much longer than I would have predicted &#8211; given the delays launching the channel &#8211; but now that it has been running for a while it needs to move on, and Parsons might well feel the same.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s a problem with AJE for me, it\u2019s that it doesn\u2019t have an editorial voice, and it doesn\u2019t get talked about (except when <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">David Frost<\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg\">forgot to ask<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Benazir Bhutto<\/span> if OBL really was dead). Ultimately, that editorial voice needs to emanate from the Middle East, rather than from the mineral depths of a glass of Chablis.<\/p>\n<p>Someone Middle Eastern, with a serious editorial background and who understands Washington might be a good choice. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/1FA3ABA3-AAA7-430E-B1C6-61CB60E08629.htm\">Who might that be?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,139],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-al-jazeera","tag-al-jazeera-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}