Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English
Launched	15 November 2006
Network	Al Jazeera
Owned by	Qatar Media Corporation
Picture format	16:9 (576i, SDTV)
Slogan	"Setting The News Agenda"
Country	Qatar
Language	English
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Headquarters	Doha, Qatar
Sister channel(s)	Al Jazeera
Website	www.aljazeera.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Triangle TV Auckland & Wellington	Limited scheduled transmission on FTA UHF channels at certain hours
MHz Networks Northern Virginia/Washington, D.C.	Channel 30.5
Freeview United Kingdom	Channel 89
WRNN-DT2 Kingston/New York City	Channel 48.2, 92 on Time Warner Cable
Satellite
AsiaSat 3S Asia/ME/Australia	3760 H / 26000 / 7/8
Astra 1KR Europe	11508 V / 22000 / 5/6
Eurobird 1 Europe	11680 V / 27500 / 2/3
G-23 (IA 13) N/Central America	3900 V / 27684 / 3/4
Galaxy 19 North America	12152 H / 20000 / 3/4
Hispasat 1C Europe/N Africa	12092 V / 27500 / 3/4
Hotbird 6 Europe	11034 V / 27500 / 3/4
Nilesat 101 North Africa/ME	12015 V / 27500 / 3/4
Optus C1 SE Asia/Australia	12367 V / 27800 / 3/4 PID: video=1121, audio=1122
Intelsat 9 Americas	3840 H / 27690 / 7/8
Intelsat 10 East. Hemisphere	4064 H / 19850 / 7/8
Thor 3 NE Europe	12398 H / 28000 / 7/8
Astro Malaysia	Channel 513
Indovision Indonesia	Channel 331
CanalDigitaal	Channel 64
Canal Digital	Channel 57
CanalSat	Channel 331
Cyfrowy Polsat	Channel 95
Dialog TV	Channel 3
Digital+	Channel 79
Digiturk	Channel 144
DStv	Channel 406
Globecast	Channel 463 (FTA)
MEO	Channel 205
Sky	Channel 514
SKY Italia	Channel 522
TPS	Channel 330
Turksat 2A Eurasia	12139 H / 2222 / 3/4
TV Vlaanderen	Channel 54
Cable
Buckeye CableSystem	Channel 220
Burlington Telecom	Channel 132
Cable Star Iloilo (Philippines)	Channel 55
Cable TV (Hong Kong)	Channel 34
Cablecom (Switzerland)	Channel 152 (digital CH-D)
Cablelink (Philippines)	Channel 22
Cablevision (Lebanon)	UNKNOWN
Elisa	(digital tuner required)
First Media (Indonesia)	Channel 252
Global Destiny (Philippines)	Channel 24
Kabel BW (Germany)	UNKNOWN
KDG (Germany)	Channel 842
KU (Lawrence, Kansas, United States)	RESNET Channel 94
NOOS-UPC	Channel 64
Parasat Cable TV (Philippines)	Channel 98
Rogers Cable (Canada)	Channel 176
Royal Cable	Channel 65
Qatar Cable	UNKNOWN
Shaw Cable (Canada)	Channel 513
SkyCable (Philippines)	Channel 151
IPTV
Clix SmarTV	Channel 97
Club Internet	Channel 59
Elion	Channel 66
Free	Channel 85
HKBN bbTV	Channel 735
Neuf TV	Channel 47
now TV Hong Kong	Channel 325
TPG	UNKNOWN
Yes TV	UNKNOWN
Imagenio	Channel 136
Hypp.TV	Channel 2001
MEO	Channel 205
Bell Fibe TV Canada	Channel 516
CHT MOD Taiwan	Channel 116
Fetch Tv Australia	Channel 187
UniFi Malaysia	Channel 126
Internet television
Al Jazeera	Watch (Free, 56 Kbit/s)
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JumpTV	Watch (Subscription)
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Real	Watch (Free)
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YouTube	Watch (Live stream and video segments)
Zattoo	Watch (Where available)

Al Jazeera English (AJE) is an international 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It is the sister channel of the Arabic-language Al Jazeera.

The station broadcasts news features and analysis, documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology, and sports. The station claims to be the first global high-definition television network.

Al Jazeera English is the world's first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East. The channel aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview. Instead of being run under central command, news management rotates around broadcasting centers in Doha, London and Washington D.C. Complete news bulletins from Kuala Lumpur stopped on 30 September 2010 and have been replaced by news from Doha, with news inserts from Kuala Lumpur ending in early 2011. Al Jazeera English is one of the few foreign media outlets to have agencies in Gaza and Harare.

The network's stated objective is "to give voice to untold stories, promote debate, and challenge established perceptions."

Philosophy

Al Jazeera English has stated objectives of emphasizing news from the developing world, of "reversing the North to South flow of information" and of "setting the news agenda" (also the channel's slogan). Some observers, including media scholar Adel Iskandar, have commented that this focus can be seen, in the eyes of Western viewers, as casting Al Jazeera English as a global "alternative" news network, though the entire Al Jazeera brand has been heavily mainstreamed in many parts of the world. Other Al Jazeera English slogans and catchphrases include: "All the News | All the Time", "Fearless Journalism" and "If it's newsworthy, it gets on air, whether it's Bush or Bin Laden". Al Jazeera's Code of Ethics mirrors some of these statements. Award winning Creative teams shaped the English brand identity, the on-air studios and its "EVERY ANGLE | EVERY SIDE" promotional positioning, led by Director of Creative, Morgan Almeida, "to extend the Arabic heritage in a language familiar to diverse global audiences".

Launch and reach

The channel was launched on 15 November 2006. It had aimed to begin global broadcasting in June 2006 but had to postpone its launch because its HDTV technology was not ready. The channel was due to be called Al Jazeera International, but the name was changed nine months before the launch because "one of the Qatar-based channel's backers decided that the broadcaster already had an international scope with its original Arabic outlet."

The channel had expected to reach around 40 million households, but it far exceeded that launch target, reaching 80 million homes. As of 2009, Al Jazeera's English-language service can be viewed in every major European market, and is available to 130 million homes in over 100 countries via cable and satellite, according to Molly Conroy, a spokeswoman for the network in Washington.

The channel is noted for its poor penetration in the American market, where it is carried by only one satellite service, and a small number of cable networks. Al Jazeera English has begun a campaign to enter the North American market, including a dedicated website. It became available to some cable subscribers in New York in August 2011, having previously been available as an option for some viewers in Washington DC, Ohio and Los Angeles. It is readily available on most major Canadian television providers including Rogers and Bell TV after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the channel for distribution in Canada on 26 November 2009.

Al Jazeera English and Iran's state-run Press TV were the only international English-language television broadcasters with journalists reporting from inside both Gaza and Israel during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict. Foreign press access to Gaza has been limited via either Egypt or Israel. However, Al Jazeera's reporters Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros were already inside Gaza when the conflict began and the network's coverage was often compared to CNN's initial coverage from inside Baghdad in the early days of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

The channel may also be viewed online. It recommends online viewing either via Livestation, a free software (live, high quality), at its own website (live, low quality), or at its channel on YouTube. Although Al Jazeera English is produced in High Definition (HD), the output is converted to 14:9 SD similar to BBC World. Programs are shown on the Al Jazeera English YouTube channel in their original 16:9 format.

Programmes

Current programmes on the channel are:

• 101 East – weekly show hosted by Fauziah Ibrahim; Asian politics, business and current affairs
• Counting The Cost – hosted by Kamahl Santamaria; a weekly look at business and finance
• Empire – monthly programme exploring global powers and their policies. A discussion with host Marwan Bishara and his guests
• Frost Over The World – hosted by Sir David Frost; "Frost Over the World brings together a diverse range of guests to discuss the week’s current affairs"
• Fault Lines – presented by Sebastian Walker, Zeina Awad and Josh Rushing "Looking deeper into the US and its place in the world"
• Inside Story – "analysis, background, and context on the day's top story"
• Inside Story Americas - Presented from Washington DC "Dissecting the day's top story from the Americas"
• Listening Post – hosted by Richard Gizbert; Al Jazeera English revisits and reviews how other news organizations covered the news that week and presents viewer-submitted news

• News:
  • World news live from Al Jazeera's Doha broadcast centre
  • World news live from Al Jazeera's Washington D.C. centre
  • World news live from Al Jazeera's London broadcast centre
  • Newshour – an hour of world news hosted from several of Al Jazeera's broadcast centres, linked together live: 15:00GMT edition from Doha/London; 18:00GMT edition from Doha/London; 21:00GMT edition from London/Washington DC; 23:00GMT edition from Doha/Washington DC; 02:00GMT edition from Doha/Washington DC
  • News headlines are broadcast generally every half hour

• People & Power – biweekly programme hosted by Dr Shereen El Feki, Juliana Ruhfus and Sapna Bhatia; In April 2007, Samah El-Shahat replaced Shereen El Feki as the main host of the program. "People & Power is about power in the 21st century – who has it, who wants it and how it is being used – and abused"
• The Stream – a programme focusing on social media hosted by Derrick Ashong and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, on air every Monday to Thursday.
• Witness – hosted by Ghida Fakhry; a daily presentation of short documentaries
• Aljazeera World- Al Jazeera World is a series of one-hour documentaries showcasing films from across the Al Jazeera Network.
• Earthrise- stylized as "earthrise", "earthrise explores solutions to today's environmental challenges, taking an upbeat look at ecological, scientific, technological and design projects the world over"
• The Fabulous Picture Show – hosted by Amanda Palmer, offers some interviews.

In addition to the above, Al Jazeera English runs various programmes that are either entirely non-recurrent or consist of just a limited number of parts (miniseries format)

International bureaux

In addition to its four main broadcast centres, Al Jazeera English has 21 supporting bureaus around the world which gather and produce news. It also shares resources with its Arabic-language sister channel's 42 bureaus and is planning to add further bureaus, to be announced as they open. After it began broadcasting in Canada in May 2010, the network announced plans to open, in June 2010, a Canadian bureau office in Toronto. This is a significant difference from the present trend.

“The mainstream American networks have cut their bureaus to the bone.... They’re basically only in London now. Even CNN has pulled back. I remember in the ’80s when I covered these events there would be a truckload of American journalists and crews and editors, and now Al Jazeera outnumbers them all.... That’s where, in the absence of alternatives, Al Jazeera English can fill a vacuum, simply because we’re going in the opposite direction.”
-Tony Burman, Managing Director, AJE (quoted in Adbusters)

Also Al Jazeera presenters can alternate between broadcast centres.

Doha broadcast studio in use, November 2011

Middle East

Broadcast Centre: Doha (map)
Anchors: Dareen Abughaida, Folly Bah Thibault, Nick Clark, Jane Dutton, Ghida Fakhry, Adrian Finighan, David Foster, Shiulie Ghosh, Darren Jordon, Divya Gopalan, Laura Kyle, Teymoor Nabili, Sohail Rahman, Kamahl Santamaria
Correspondents: Hoda Abdel-Hamid, Hashem Ahelbarra, James Bays, Clayton Swisher, Sherine Tadros, Nadim Baba in Gaza, Imran Khan, Mike Hanna

Bureaus and Correspondents
Beirut: Rula Amin
Gaza: Sherine Tadros
Ramallah: Nour Odeh
Tehran: Alireza Ronaghi

Africa

Bureaux: Cairo, Abidjan, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Harare
Correspondents: Amr El Kahky, Haru Mutasa, Mohammed Adow, Mohamad Vall, Yvonne Ndege

Al Jazeera English studio control room, London

Europe

Broadcast Centre: London (map)
Anchors: Felicity Barr, Stephen Cole, Barbara Serra, Lauren Taylor, Sami Zeidan
Correspondents: Alan Fisher, Laurence Lee, Tim Friend, Nazanine Moshiri, Barnaby Phillips, Tania Paige, Akhtam Suliman

Bureaux and Correspondents:
Moscow: Neave Barker
Paris: Jacky Rowland

The Americas

Broadcast Centre: Washington D.C. (map)
Anchors: Daljit Dhaliwal, Imran Garda, Kimberly Halkett, Anand Naidoo, Lisa Fletcher, Shihab Rattansi
Correspondents: Rosiland Jordan, Nick Spicer, Kimberly Halkett, Rob Reynolds

Bureaux and Correspondents:
Bogota: Monica Villamizar
Buenos Aires: Lucia Newman, Theresa Bo
Caracas: Dima Khatib, Mariana Sanchez and Lucrecia Franco
New York: Kristen Saloomey, John Terret
Mexico City: Franc Contreras
São Paulo: Gabriel Elizondo
Toronto: Imtiaz Tyab

Asia and Australasia

Broadcast Centre: Kuala Lumpur (map)
Correspondents: Veronica Pedrosa, Tony Birtley, Casey Kauffman

Bureaux and Correspondents
Beijing: Melissa Chan
Islamabad: Kamal Hyder
Jakarta: Step Vaessen
Delhi: Prerna Suri
Manila: Marga Ortigas

Staff

Current

Presenters and correspondents who have joined the channel include (previous employers in brackets):

Dareen Abughaida(Bloomberg, CNBC) Zeina Awad (BBC World ) Marwan Bishara (American University of Paris) Felicity Barr (ITN) Nick Clark (BBC World, ITV, various) Stephen Cole (BBC World, CNN International, Sky News) Brendan Connor (CBC) Jane Dutton (BBC World, CNN International) Ghida Fakhry (Asharq Al-Awsat, LBC, various) Dr. Shereen El Feki (The Economist) Elizabeth Filippouli (ERT) Alan Fisher (GMTV) David Foster (Sky News) Everton Fox (BBC World) Sir David Frost (BBC World, ITV, TV-am) Steve Gaisford (Sky News, ITV, Five) Imran Garda (Supersport) Joanna Gasiorowska (ITN, Sky Sports) Steff Gaulter (Sky News, Met Office) Shiulie Ghosh (ITN) Richard Gizbert (ABC) Divya Gopalan (BBC World, NBC, CNBC) Tony Harris (CNN) Kimberley Halkett (Global TV – Canada) David Hawkins (CBS, CNN) Wayne Hay Fauziah Ibrahim (STTV, CNBC) Richard Angwin (BBC, Met Office)

Rola Ibrahim (Al Jazeera) Hassan Ibrahim (Al Jazeera, various) Darren Jordon (BBC World) Riz Khan (BBC World, CNN International) Avi Lewis (CBC) Julie MacDonald (ITV, BBC World, GMTV) Teymoor Nabili (BBC World, CNBC) Rageh Omaar (BBC World) Marga Ortigas (GMA News and Public Affairs, CNN) Shahnaz Pakravan (BBC World, ITN) Amanda Palmer (CNN, APTV, Seven Network) Rahul Pathak Verónica Pedrosa (ABS-CBN, BBC World, CNN International) Cal Perry (CNN) Sohail Rahman (Granada TV, ITV, BBC World, Channel 4, CNN) Shihab Rattansi (Channel NewsAsia, CNN International) Andy Richardson (Sky News, ITN) Josh Rushing (US Marine Corps) Kamahl Santamaria (Sky News Australia, TV3 News) Mark Seddon (BBC World, Sky News, Channel 4, various) Barbara Serra (Sky News) Nick Spicer (NPR, USA, CBC) Prerna Suri, New Delhi, India, (CNN-IBN, India) Lauren Taylor (ITN, Sky News) Folly Bah Thibault ( France 24) Sami Zeidan (CNBC Arabiya, CNN) Kevin Corriveau (CNN International, United States Air Force)

Former presenters and correspondents

Presenters and correspondents who have left Al-Jazeera English include:

David Hawkins Hamish Macdonald Dave Marash

Maryam Nemazee Arthur Neslen

Recruitment

Veteran British broadcaster Sir David Frost joined Al Jazeera English in 2005 to host his show Frost Over the World.

Former BBC and CNN anchor Riz Khan, who previously had been the host of the CNN talk show Q&A, also joined. He hosts his shows Riz Khan and Riz Khan's One on One.

Former U.S. Marine Josh Rushing joined Al Jazeera in September 2005. He had been the press officer for the United States Central Command during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and in that role had been featured in the documentary Control Room. When subsequently joining Al Jazeera, Rushing commented that "In a time when American media has become so nationalized, I'm excited about joining an organization that truly wants to be a source of global information...." Rushing works from the Washington D.C. broadcasting centre.

Former CNN and BBC news anchorwoman and award winning journalist Veronica Pedrosa also joined the team, along with CNN producer James Wright, and Kieran Baker, a former editor and producer for CNN, who had been Acting General Manager, Communications and Public Participation for ICANN. On 2 December 2005, Stephen Cole, a senior anchor on BBC World and Click Online presenter, announced he was joining Al Jazeera International.

The network announced on 12 January 2006 that former Nightline correspondent Dave Marash would be the co-anchor from their Washington studio. Marash described his new position as "the most interesting job on Earth." On 6 February 2006, it was announced that the former BBC reporter Rageh Omaar would host the daily weeknights documentary series, Witness.

The managing director for Al Jazeera English was previously Tony Burman, who replaced Nigel Parsons in May 2008.

Availability

The channel is available in many countries, mostly via satellite, sometimes via cable. The channel is also available online. Al Jazeera English provides a free HD stream on it's website for unlimited viewing. It is avaliable for free worldwide. They also provide a free stream on their YouTube page. It can also be streamed in lower quality live worldwide for free through Livestation. Previously, before Al Jazeera provided an official stream, a low quality RealVideo stream was avaliable for viewing. Al Jazeera news segments are frequently included on the American public television program Worldfocus. Al Jazeera can also be streamed on any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with a 3G or wifi conncection using a free application.

Along with a free unlimited high-quality stream on the official Al Jazeera English website, Online subscriptions allowing unlimited viewing may be purchased from Jump TV, RealPlayer, and VDC. Headlines from Al-Jazeera English are available on Twitter.

Al Jazeera English's website also contains news reports and full episodes of their programs that can be viewed for free on their website. The videos are hosted by Youtube, where viewers can also go to find the videos.

Al Jazeera English is available in the UK and Ireland on Freeview (channel 89), Sky's digital satellite platform on channel 514, and on Freesat, channel 203.

On 26 November 2009, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved "a request to add Al Jazeera English (AJE) to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis and amends the lists of eligible satellite services accordingly." Al Jazeera English became available on Rogers Cable, Videotron and Bell TV on 4 May 2010.

In New Zealand, Triangle TV re-broadcasts various Al Jazeera programmes in Auckland on free-to-air UHF channel.

In April 2010, Al Jazeera English was taken off air in mio TV Singapore with unspecified reasons, according to the official Al Jazeera English website.

The channel initially began test streaming Al Jazeera English (then called "Al Jazeera International") in March 2006 on Hot Bird, Astra 1E, Hispasat, AsiaSat3S, Eurobird 1 and Panamsat PAS 10. Telenors Thor, Türksat and Eurobird 2 were added to the satellites carrying it. Eurobird 1 carried the test stream on frequency 11.681 under the name "AJI".

On 7 December 2010, Al Jazeera said its English language service has got a downlink license to broadcast in India. Satellite and cable companies would therefore be allowed to broadcast Al Jazeera in the country. The channel launched on Dish TV in November 2011, and is considering a Hindi-language channel.

United States

Al Jazeera English's coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution led to calls for the channel to be aired in the U.S.

Al Jazeera English is available via satellite across all of North America free to air via GlobeCast World TV on Galaxy 19 on the Ku band in DVB format. As of 2011, only a small number of Americans were able to watch the channel on their televisions. Among the markets where it was available was were Bristol County, Rhode Island; Toledo and Sandusky, Ohio; Burlington, Vermont; Houston, Texas; and Washington, DC. Industry giant Comcast originally planned to carry Al Jazeera English in 2007, but reversed its decision shortly before the channel's launch, citing "the already-saturated television market". The two major American satellite providers, DirecTV and Dish Network, had similar plans but also changed their minds, with speculation that the decision may have been influenced by allegations by the Bush administration of "anti-American bias" in the channel.

With Al Jazeera's coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the channel drew acclaim and received renewed attention. The New York Times reported on 1 February 2011 that 1.6 million U.S. viewers had tuned in via Internet stream, and stated that new discussions were underway with carriers. The following month, it was announced that Al Jazeera entered carriage negotiations with Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Salon.com described the channel's English-language coverage as "mandatory viewing for anyone interested in the world-changing events currently happening in Egypt", while Huffington Post contributor Jeff Jarvis claimed it was "un-American" for operators to not carry the network. When Al Jazeera covered the 2011 Libyan civil war, [[U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noted an increasing American audience for the network, saying that "viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and—you know—arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which—you know—is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."

On 1 February 2011, Internet appliance Roku posted on its Facebook page that the English-Language Al Jazeera Live would be streaming on Roku devices through a private channel called Newscaster and also through the BBC channel. It permitted the announcement following unrest in Egypt so American viewers can watch the latest events going on in the Middle East. A Roku user must add the private channel Newscaster from the Roku website.

On 1 August 2011, Al Jazeera English began airing 23 hours a day in New York City as part of a sublet agreement with cable channel RISE, a former Spanish-language network, which is carried on WRNN-TV's DT2 subchannel (the other hours are used to meet FCC E/I and local programming guidelines). The network airs on Time Warner Cable on channel 92 and on Verizon FiOS on channel 466.

Criticism

As with Al Jazeera's Arabic counterpart, the network has received criticism from having bias from several sides, usually being accused when whomever is being covered receives coverage that seems negative. They have been criticized for having favorable coverage of the Arab Spring. They have also received criticism of an Anti-American bias due in large to the criticism the Bush administration gave Al Jazeera Arabic during the Afghanistan and Iraq War. They have also received criticism for having a Pro-American bias.

Anti-American bias

Al Jazeera English has received criticism of Anti-American bias, mostly from American Conservatives. Emmy award winning journalist Dave Marash, who served as a veteran correspondent for ABC's Nightline, resigned from his position as Washington anchor for Al Jazeera English in 2008. Marash cited "reflexive adversarial editorial stance" against Americans and "anti-American bias". On 14 February 2011 however, Dave Marash defended Al Jazeera English on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News.

On 12 October 2008, Al Jazeera English broadcast interviews with people attending a Sarah Palin 2008 United States presidential election rally in St. Clairsville, Ohio, with interviewees making comments about Barack Obama such as "he regards white people as trash" and "I'm afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over". The report received over 2 million views on YouTube Following this the Washington Post ran an op-ed, claiming the news channel was deliberately encouraging "anti-American sentiment overseas", which was criticized by Al Jazeera as "a gratuitous and uninformed shot at Al Jazeera's motives", as the report was just one of "hundreds of hours of diverse coverage". Criticism of an Anti-American bias has been dwindling as their coverage of the Arab Spring received wide acclaim and calls for the network to be added to U.S. television.

Pro-American bias

As with its Arabic counterpart, while Al Jazeera English has been criticized for having an Anti-American bias, it has also been criticized for a Pro-American bias. Al Jazeera English's former director, Wadah Khanfar resigned in September of 2011 following Wikileaks documents that showed that he had close ties to the U.S. and agreed to remove content if the United States objected.

Some of Al Jazeera's competitors have claimed that Al Jazeera is pro-American. In an interview with RT, a network criticized for a alleged Anti-Western bias a former Al Jazeera reporter Omar Chatriwala claimed that the US government would discuss content that they thought were inappropriate to Wadah, and ask for content to be removed. Another rival, Iranian Press TV has also published articles critical of Al Jazeera, claiming that Al Jazeera has Pro-American bias and serving Israeli interests. Their criticism of Al Jazeera came along with criticism of Qatar's government, and reports of rallies against the government.

There is also criticism that Al Jazeera has been moving towards a Pro-American stance in order to appeal to a wider audience. This included a day's worth of special coverage marking the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. This was seen to have been a test to Al Jazeera, on whether it can get rid of the hostility Americans feel toward it. Al Jazeera has also launched The Stream a show based in Washington D.C. that discusses social media, which targets an American audience.

Awards

• In 2012, Al Jazeera English won the News Channel of the Year Award from the Royal Television Society for the first time. In doing so, it beat out the BBC and Sky News.
• In 2008, Al Jazeera English won The Golden Nymph Award for Best 24-Hour News Program at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. The jurors singled out Nour Odeh, Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent, for her bravery in reporting from the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera English also received nominations in several other news categories, for example the Best News Documentary award for the report Inside Myanmar – The Crackdown.

See also

• International broadcasting
• Al Jazeera Balkans

Competitors

• BBC World News
• CNN International
• Deutsche Welle
• France 24
• Press TV
• Russia Today

References

Further reading

• Abdul-Mageed, MM, (2008) TripleC: Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, 6(2), 59–76 Online News Sites and Journalism 2.0: Reader Comments on Al Jazeera Arabic Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, 10 April 2009
• Abdul-Mageed, MM, and Herring, SC, (2008) In: F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec, and C. Ess (Eds.), Proceedings of Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication 2008 (CATaC'08), Nîmes, France, 24–27 June Arabic and English News Coverage on Al Jazeera.NET Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, 10 March 2008
• Tatham Steve (2006), Losing Arab Hearts & Minds: The Coalition, Al-Jazeera & Muslim Public Opinion. Hurst & Co (UK), Front Street Press (US)

External links

• Official website
• Al Jazeera International Commissioning
• Media Blackout in Egypt and the U.S.: Al Jazeera Forced Off the Air by Mubarak, Telecommunications Companies Block Its Expansion in the United States Democracy Now, 1 February 2011
• Coverage maps and availability information Al Jazeera