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Al Jazeera English is an international 24-hour English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

-language news and current affairs

Current affairs (news format)

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TV channel headquartered in Doha

Doha

Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...

, Qatar

Qatar

Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

. It is the sister channel of the Arabic-language Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera is an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and headquartered in Doha, Qatar...

.

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

High-definition television

High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

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

Doha

Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...

, London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

and Washington D.C. Complete news bulletins from Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

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

Gaza

Gaza , also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 450,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories.Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC,...

and Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

.

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

Adel Iskandar

Adel Iskandar is a British-born Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist, analyst, and academic. He is the author and co-author of several works on Arab media, most prominently an analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera...

, have commented that this focus can be seen, in the eyes of Western

Western culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization or European civilization, refers to cultures of European origin and is used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, religious beliefs, political systems, and specific artifacts and...

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

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

or Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

". 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

Rogers Cable

Rogers Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, in Manitoba, Southern & Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.The...

and Bell TV after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the channel for distribution in Canada on 26 November 2009.

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

Gaza Strip

thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...

. 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.

Al Jazeera English and Iran's state-run Press TV

Press TV

Press TV is a 24-hour English language global news network owned by the Iranian government. Its headquarters are located in Tehran, Iran, with bureaux in Beirut , Damascus , London , Seoul and Washington DC ....

were the only international English-language television broadcasters with journalists reporting from inside both Gaza and Israel during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict

2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict

The Gaza War, known as Operation Cast Lead in Israel and as the Gaza Massacre in the Arab world, was a three-week bombing and invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israel, and hundreds of rocket attacks on south of Israel which...

. Foreign press access to Gaza has been limited via either Egypt or Israel. However, Al Jazeera's reporters Ayman Mohyeldin

Ayman Mohyeldin

Ayman Mohyeldin is an Arab-American journalist based in Los Angeles for NBC. Previously he worked for Al Jazeera and CNN, Ayman was one of the first western journalists allowed to enter and report on the handing over and trial of the deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Interim...

and Sherine Tadros

Sherine Tadros

Sherine Tadros is an Arab-British journalist based in the Middle East. She is a correspondent for Al Jazeera English and based in Doha, Qatar....

were already inside Gaza when the conflict began and the network's coverage was often compared to CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

'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

High-definition television

(HD), the output is converted to 14:9

14:9

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Standard-definition television

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similar to BBC World

BBC World

BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world...

. Programs are shown on the Al Jazeera English YouTube channel in their original 16:9 format.

Programmes

Regular/recurrent programmes on the channel are:

101 East
101 East
101 East is a weekly television programme broadcast by Al Jazeera English that focuses on Asian current affairs. It is presented by Fauziah Ibrahim from various locations across Asia...

– weekly show hosted by Fauziah Ibrahim; Asian politics, business and current affairs
48 – "In one city with only 48 hours, Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer (journalist)
Amanda Palmer is the Executive Director for the Doha Film Institute, , an independent cultural organisation founded by H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani which promotes year-round film education, film financing, production, and building a sustainable film industry in...

shows you the highs and lows of city living"
Birthrights – "Birthrights is a series exploring maternal health and the power, politics and poverty that impacts it around the world"
Counting The Cost – hosted by Kamahl Santamaria; a weekly look at business and finance
Empire – monthly program exploring global powers and their policies. A discussion with host Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara is Al Jazeera English's senior political analyst and the editor & host of Empire, which examines global powers and their agendas. He was previously a professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris and a fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences...

and his guests
Everywoman – hosted by Shiulie Ghosh
Shiulie Ghosh
Shiulie Ghosh is a television journalist for Al Jazeera English, a leading international news network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. She attended The Avenue Primary School, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, and then Teesside High....

; "Everywoman is the first show of its kind from the Middle East to put women’s issues at its core. Its strong stories with universal appeal ensure that this will be compelling viewing for men and women alike" (discontinued)
The Fabulous Picture Show (FPS) – Motion picture/entertainment show hosted by Amanda Palmer
Frost Over The World
Frost Over The World
Frost Over The World is a television interview and news talk show, with Sir David Frost as host. Frost is a famed English television presenter. The show is broadcast on Al Jazeera English...

– hosted by Sir David Frost
David Frost (broadcaster)
Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE is a British journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and daytime TV game show host best known for his two decades as host of Through the Keyhole and serious interviews with various political figures, the most notable being Richard Nixon...

; "Frost Over the World brings together a diverse range of guests to discuss the week’s current affairs"
Fault Lines
Fault Lines
Fault Lines, a documentary series produced and broadcasted by Al Jazeera English, is the channel's flagship program about the Americas.Josh Rushing, Zeina Awad and Sebastian Walker host the series, currently enjoying it's third season....

– presented by Avi Lewis
Avi Lewis
Avram David "Avi" Lewis is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, host of the Al Jazeera English show , and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation current-affairs program On the Map.-Family:...

and Josh Rushing
Josh Rushing
Josh Rushing co-hosts Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English's flagship program about the Americas. As an international correspondent, Rushing has hosted and produced programs all over the world. So far in 2011 Rushing has filmed two Fault Lines episodes in Mexico and third in...

"Looking deeper into the US and its place in the world"
Inside Iraq – hosted by Jasim Al-Azzawi
Jasim Al-Azzawi
Jasim Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi host, who presented the show Inside Iraq on Al Jazeera English.Before joining Al Jazeera English in July 2006, Jasim was one of the main news anchors at Abu Dhabi TV from September 1999 until June 2006. For seven years he presented the main evening news at Abu Dhabi,...

, "Inside Iraq is a weekly debate programme offering opinions from a diverse range of guests on Iraq"
Inside Story
Inside Story (TV programme)
Inside Story is a daily news programme broadcast by Al Jazeera English. Presented by an anchor from Al Jazeera's studios in Doha who is joined by guests from around the globe, the programme provides analysis and commentary on recent news stories...

– "analysis, background, and context on the day's top story"

Listening Post – hosted by Richard Gizbert

Richard Gizbert

Richard Gizbert is a Canadian journalist. He is the presenter of the Listening Post on Al Jazeera English. Gizbert was formerly employed by ABC News but was sacked for refusing to travel to Iraq to cover the 2003 U.S. invasion...

; 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 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

News Review – Al Jazeera English reviews/recaps the news of the day (discontinued)

People & Power

People & Power is the flagship current affairs programme on Al Jazeera English, broadcast twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays, and repeated throughout the week....

– 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"

Riz Khan – (Monday-Thursday) viewer participation show hosted by Riz Khan

Riz Khan's One on One – Riz Khan sits down with a single guest for an extended interview

Sportsworld – a daily sport

Sport

A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

s programme hosted, on rotation, by members of Al Jazeera's Doha sports team (discontinued)

The Stream

The Stream is a daily television programme on Al Jazeera English. It is branded as a “Web community With a Global TV show”. On television and online The Stream taps into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news...

– a programme focusing on social media

Social media

The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...

hosted by Derrick Ashong

Derrick Ashong

Derrick N. Ashong, also known as "DNA", , is a musician, artist, activist, and entrepreneur.-Background:Born in Accra, Ghana in 1975, Derrick Ashong is the son of a pediatrician...

and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is an Arab-American journalist, blogger and Huffington Post columnist. He currently works as a producer/co-host for Al Jazeera English's new show, The Stream.-Early life: grew up in California, Kuwait, Egypt and Austria....

, on air every Monday to Thursday.

Witness

Witness (2006 TV programme)

Witness is a documentary television programme that airs on Al Jazeera English. Presented by Ghida Fakhry, the programme showcases documentaries commissioned from independent filmmakers around the world...

– hosted by Ghida Fakhry

Ghida Fakhry

Ghida Fakhry is a Lebanese journalist and is one of the primary broadcasters for the news channel Al Jazeera English at the network's Doha broadcast headquarters. Since January 2010, she has also been the host of Witness, an award-winning documentary program.-Early life and education:Fakhry was...

; a daily presentation of short documentaries

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

Miniseries

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format).

International bureau

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
Tony Burman
Tony Burman is the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.Previously, he served as Al Jazeera's chief strategic advisor for the Americas, 2010-2011, based in Washington DC. He also served as managing director of the Al Jazeera English network, based in Doha,...

, Managing Director, AJE (qtd. in Adbusters
AdBusters
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)

Also Al Jazeera presenters can alternate between broadcast centres.

Middle East

Broadcast Centre: Doha (map)

Anchors: Dareen Abughaida

Dareen Abughaida

Dareen Abughaida is an anchorwoman for Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar. She is known for her coverage of the Egyptian revolution. She previously worked for Dubai One...

, Folly Bah Thibault

Folly Bah Thibault

Folly Bah Thibault is a French journalist of Guinean ancestry. She began her career in the United States and later served as anchor and correspondent for France 24, hosting a segment titled The Week in Africa. She currently works as an anchor and correspondent for Al Jazeera English's Doha...

, Nick Clark, Jane Dutton, Ghida Fakhry

Ghida Fakhry

, Adrian Finighan

Adrian Finighan

Adrian Finighan is a British journalist, working as a presenter and reporter for the television channel Al Jazeera English . He is based at AJE’s World headquarters in Doha and presents programmes from there....

, David Foster, Shiulie Ghosh

Shiulie Ghosh

Shiulie Ghosh is a television journalist for Al Jazeera English, a leading international news network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. She attended The Avenue Primary School, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, and then Teesside High....

, Darren Jordon

Darren Jordon

Darren Jordon is a British journalist working for the Al-Jazeera 24 hour English language news and current affairs channel, Al Jazeera English....

, Divya Gopalan, Laura Kyle, Teymoor Nabili, Sohail Rahman and Kamahl Santamaria.

Correspondents: Hoda Abdel-Hamid, Hashem Ahelbarra, James Bays, Clayton Swisher, Sherine Tadros

Sherine Tadros

Sherine Tadros is an Arab-British journalist based in the Middle East. She is a correspondent for Al Jazeera English and based in Doha, Qatar....

, Nadim Baba in Gaza

Gaza

, Imran Khan

Imran Khan

Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...

, and Mike Hanna.

Bureaus and Correspondents

Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

: Rula Amin

Gaza

Gaza

: Ayman Mohyeldin

Ayman Mohyeldin

Ramallah

Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...

: Nour Odeh

Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

: Alireza Ronaghi

Africa

Bureaux: Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

, Abidjan

Abidjan

Abidjan is the economic and former official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while the current capital is Yamoussoukro. it was the largest city in the nation and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris, and Kinshasa but before Montreal...

, Nairobi

Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...

, Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

, and Harare

Harare

.

Correspondents: Amr El Kahky, Haru Mutasa

Haru Mutasa

Haru Mutasa is the Nairobi correspondent for Al Jazeera English, the first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East.She has worked with the South African Broadcasting Corporation , CNN, Television New Zealand , Associated Press Television News and the Star Sports Network.As a...

, Mohammed Adow, Mohamad Vall, Yvonne Ndege

Yvonne Ndege

Yvonne Ndege is a British-Kenyan journalist based in Abuja, Nigeria, and is the West Africa Correspondent for the English-language news channel, Al Jazeera English...

Europe

Broadcast Centre: London (map)

Anchors: Felicity Barr

Felicity Barr

Felicity Barr is a British journalist working for Al Jazeera English.-Early career:Barr trained as a journalist at 2-Ten FM, before she specialised in sports reporting, covering events in sport since 1994 when she worked as a freelance journalist...

, Stephen Cole

Stephen Cole

Stephen Cole is a presenter for Al Jazeera English. Previously, he worked for the BBC.-Broadcasting career:...

, Barbara Serra

Barbara Serra

Barbara Serra is an Italian-born British-based journalist and TV newsreader, who presents from London on Al Jazeera.-Biography:Born in Milan to Italian parents, she was raised in Copenhagen from the age of nine...

, Lauren Taylor and Sami Zeidan

Correspondents: Alan Fisher

Alan Fisher

Alan Fisher is a Scottish broadcast journalist, who works for international news channel, Al Jazeera English and is based at its News Centre in Washington DC.- Early career :...

, Laurence Lee, Tim Friend, Nazanine Moshiri, Barnaby Phillips, Tania Paige, Akhtam Suliman

Bureaux and Correspondents:

Moscow: Neave Barker

Neave Barker

Neave Barker is the Moscow correspondent of Al Jazeera English, an international news network headquartered in Doha, Qatar.He was a correspondent and news presenter at Russia Today from 2005 to 2008. He joined Al Jazeera on August 2008....

Paris: Jacky Rowland

Jacky Rowland

Jacky Rowland is an Al Jazeera correspondent, based in Jerusalem, currently on assignment in Libya. Before joining Al Jazeera she was a foreign correspondent for the BBC, during which time she won the Royal Television Society Award in 2001.- External links :...

The Americas

Broadcast Centre: Washington D.C. (map)

Anchors: Daljit Dhaliwal

Daljit Dhaliwal

Daljit Dhaliwal is a British newsreader and television presenter.Dhaliwal is currently one of the news presenters for the Al-Jazeera English news service and broadcasts from Washington DC. Previously, she was the anchor chair of Worldfocus on PBS, which aired its last broadcast on 2 April 2010...

, Imran Garda

Imran Garda

Imran Garda is a news presenter, working for the 24-hour news network's English division, Al Jazeera English, headquartered in the Middle East...

, Kimberly Halkett, Anand Naidoo

Anand Naidoo

Anand Naidoo is a South African anchor and correspondent for Al Jazeera English based in Washington, DC.- References :...

and Shihab Rattansi

Shihab Rattansi

Shihab Rattansi works for Al Jazeera English as a lead news anchor in their Washington, DC Broadcast Center. He regularly anchors the Al Jazeera Newshour presenting news and conducting interviews primarily relating to the Americas....

Correspondents: Rosiland Jordan, Nick Spicer, Kimberly Halkett and Rob Reynolds

Robert Reynolds (journalist)

Rob Reynolds is a journalist, currently a correspondent for Al Jazeera English. He has over 25 years of experience in international television journalism from his work with CNN, NBC and CNBC....

Bureaux and Correspondents:

Bogota

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

: Monica Villamizar

Mónica Villamizar

Mónica Villamizar Villegas is a Colombian journalist. She is a Washington, DC based reporter for the Al Jazeera English television news channel....

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

: Lucia Newman

Lucia Newman

Lucia Newman is a British reporter for Al Jazeera English and former reporter for CNN. In 1991, she received the Maria Moors Cabot prize from Columbia University for contributing to "the advancement of press freedom and inter-American understanding".In March 1997, Newman became the first United...

, Teresa Bo

Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

: Dima Khatib

Dima Khatib

Dima Khatib is a Syrian-born Palestinian journalist. Since 1997, she has worked as a correspondent, producer, and Latin America Bureau Chief for the Al Jazeera network.. Khatib speaks eight languages .Prior to her work with Al Jazeera, Khatib has worked for Swiss Radio International in Bern...

, Mariana Sanchez and Lucrecia Franco

New York

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

: Kristen Saloomey, John Terret

Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

: Franc Contreras

Franc Contreras

Franc Contreras is an American journalist of Mexican descent. He is the Mexico City correspondent for Al Jazeera English, a global news network headquartered in Doha, Qatar....

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

: Gabriel Elizondo

Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

: Imtiaz Tyab

Asia and Australasia

Broadcast Centre: Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

(map)

Correspondents: Veronica Pedrosa

Verónica Pedrosa

Veronica Pedrosa was the lead news presenter at the Kuala Lumpur broadcast centre 2005-2010 of Al Jazeera English, an international news network....

, Tony Birtley, Casey Kauffman

Casey Kauffman

Casey Kauffman is an American journalist who works for Al Jazeera English, the first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East....

Bureaux and Correspondents

Beijing: Melissa Chan

Islamabad: Kamal Hyder

Jakarta: Step Vaessen

Delhi: Prerna Suri

Manila: Marga Ortigas

Marga Ortigas

Margarita Ortigas, better known as Marga Ortigas, is the Manila-based correspondent for Al Jazeera English.She recently received a special prize from the International Committee of the Red Cross for Humanitarian Reporting...

Current

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

Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara is Al Jazeera English's senior political analyst and the editor & host of Empire, which examines global powers and their agendas. He was previously a professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris and a fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences...

(American University of Paris
American University of Paris
The American University of Paris is a private, independent, and accredited liberal arts and sciences university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is one of the oldest American institutions of higher education in Europe...

)
Felicity Barr
Felicity Barr
Felicity Barr is a British journalist working for Al Jazeera English.-Early career:Barr trained as a journalist at 2-Ten FM, before she specialised in sports reporting, covering events in sport since 1994 when she worked as a freelance journalist...

(ITN)
Nick Clark (BBC World, ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

, various)
Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole is a presenter for Al Jazeera English. Previously, he worked for the BBC.-Broadcasting career:...

(BBC World, CNN International, Sky News
Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...

)
Brendan Connor
Brendan Connor
Brendan Connor is a Canadian journalist with a wide range of broadcasting experience, including recently working for Al Jazeera English TV, based out of Washington, DC, and Doha, Qatar...

(CBC
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

)
Jane Dutton (BBC World, CNN International)
Ghida Fakhry
Ghida Fakhry
Ghida Fakhry is a Lebanese journalist and is one of the primary broadcasters for the news channel Al Jazeera English at the network's Doha broadcast headquarters. Since January 2010, she has also been the host of Witness, an award-winning documentary program.-Early life and education:Fakhry was...

(Asharq Al-Awsat, LBC
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and...

, various)
Dr. Shereen El Feki (The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...

)
Elizabeth Filippouli
Elizabeth Filippouli
Elizabeth Filippouli is a media and business consultant, and former television journalist born in Athens. She is Founder & Director of Global Thinkers....

(ERT
Elliniki Radiofonia Tileorasi
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation is the Greek state-owned public radio and television broadcasting corporation. It is a member of EBU.Since 70's ERT is part of the Eurovision Song Contest, organized by EBU...

)
Alan Fisher (GMTV
GMTV
GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...

)
David Foster (Sky News)
Everton Fox
Everton Fox
Everton Fox is a British weather presenter. After working for the Met Office at the BBC Weather Centre he moved to the Al Jazeera English channel.-Biography:...

(BBC World)
Sir David Frost (BBC World, ITV, TV-am)
Steve Gaisford
Steve Gaisford
Steve Gaisford is a British news presenter working primarily for ITV News and on occasions Al Jazeera English.In September 2009 Steve launched new company Chloros which focuses on using well known faces as online web presenters....

(Sky News, ITV, Five)
Imran Garda
Imran Garda
Imran Garda is a news presenter, working for the 24-hour news network's English division, Al Jazeera English, headquartered in the Middle East...

(Supersport)
Joanna Gasiorowska (ITN, Sky Sports
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

)
Steff Gaulter
Steff Gaulter
Steff Gaulter is a weather forecaster for Al Jazeera English.Gaulter won a place at University of Cambridge in 1994 where she was awarded an MA in Physics, gaining the University's top marks for the final year presentation project...

(Sky News, Met Office
Met Office
The Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a trading fund of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

)
Shiulie Ghosh
Shiulie Ghosh
Shiulie Ghosh is a television journalist for Al Jazeera English, a leading international news network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. She attended The Avenue Primary School, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, and then Teesside High....

(ITN)
Richard Gizbert
Richard Gizbert
Richard Gizbert is a Canadian journalist. He is the presenter of the Listening Post on Al Jazeera English. Gizbert was formerly employed by ABC News but was sacked for refusing to travel to Iraq to cover the 2003 U.S. invasion...

(ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

)
Divya Gopalan (BBC World, NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

, CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...

)
Tony Harris
Tony Harris (journalist)
Tony Harris is a United States television reporter and news anchor, now anchoring on Al Jazeera English. Harris was most recently a news anchor on CNN.-Life and career:...

(CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

)
Kimberley Halkett (Global TV – Canada)
David Hawkins (CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

, CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

)
Wayne Hay
rola ibrahim from tunis(al jazeera)

Hassan Ibrahim (Al Jazeera, various)

Darren Jordon

Darren Jordon is a British journalist working for the Al-Jazeera 24 hour English language news and current affairs channel, Al Jazeera English....

(BBC World)

Riz Khan (BBC World, CNN International)

Avi Lewis

Avram David "Avi" Lewis is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, host of the Al Jazeera English show , and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation current-affairs program On the Map.-Family:...

(CBC)

Julie MacDonald

Julie MacDonald (British Journalist)

Julie MacDonald is a Scottish journalist and presenter, currently working freelance with Al Jazeera English and Channel 5.MacDonald trained as a journalist at City University, London. Her Radio credits began at LBC – as producer of The Simon Bates Breakfast Show and Nick Ferrari in the Morning...

(ITV, BBC World, GMTV)

Teymoor Nabili

Teymoor Nabili is a senior presenter for Al Jazeera English, based at Al Jazeera's headquarters in Doha.During a career spanning more than 20 years, Nabili has covered news in more than 30 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas for the BBC, CNN and CNBC.The major stories he has covered...

(BBC World, CNBC)

Rageh Omaar

Rageh Omaar , is a Somali born British journalist and writer. His latest book Only Half of Me deals with the tensions between these two sides of his identity. He used to be a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq...

(BBC World)

Marga Ortigas

(GMA News and Public Affairs

GMA News and Public Affairs

GMA News and Public Affairs is the news department of the Philippine broadcaster GMA Network and its sister network GMA News TV...

, CNN)

Shahnaz Pakravan

Shahnaz Pakravan is a radio and television presenter.-Education:Pakravan was educated at Moreton Hall School, a girls' independent boarding school in Oswestry, Shropshire, in England.-Life and career:...

(BBC World, ITN)

Amanda Palmer (CNN

CNN

, APTV

Associated Press Television News

Associated Press Television News, abbreviated as either AP Television News or APTN, is a global video news agency.-About:AP Television News is the video division of the Associated Press. It provides many of the world's broadcasters with a round-the-clock continuous feed of news, sports,...

, Seven Network

Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

)

Rahul Pathak

Verónica Pedrosa

Veronica Pedrosa was the lead news presenter at the Kuala Lumpur broadcast centre 2005-2010 of Al Jazeera English, an international news network....

(ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN

ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

, BBC World, CNN International)

Sohail Rahman (Granada TV

Granada Television

Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....

, ITV, BBC World, Channel 4, CNN

CNN

)

Shihab Rattansi

(Channel NewsAsia

Channel NewsAsia

Channel NewsAsia is an English language pan-Asian news network based in Singapore and owned by MediaCorp. Started on 1 March 1999 based in Singapore by Television Corporation of Singapore, it was launched internationally on 12 February 2001 as the international broadcasting arm of Channel...

, CNN International)

Andy Richardson

Andy Richardson is a sports presenter/correspondent for Al Jazeera English, a 24-hour, English-speaking news channel.Richardson has a wide range of experience as a sports reporter and presenter from his career with Independent Television News , Sky News, ITV and Five News.He has reported for Al...

(Sky News, ITN)

Josh Rushing

Josh Rushing co-hosts Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English's flagship program about the Americas. As an international correspondent, Rushing has hosted and produced programs all over the world. So far in 2011 Rushing has filmed two Fault Lines episodes in Mexico and third in...

(US Marine Corps)

Kamahl Santamaria (Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite news channel available in 2.5 million homes on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television and Neighbourhood Cable subscription platforms....

, TV3 News

3 News

3 News is the television, internet and radio news service of New Zealand's TV3. Its flagship bulletin, which airs every evening at 6:00pm, is anchored by Hilary Barry and Mike McRoberts. Carolyn Robinson and Simon Shepherd are weekend and substitute anchors...

)

Mark Seddon

-Education:Seddon was educated at Dauntsey's School, an independent school , in the village of West Lavingdon in Wiltshire.-Life and career:...

(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)

Sami Zeidan (CNBC Arabiya

CNBC Arabiya

CNBC Arabiya is the only 24-hour Arabic language financial and business information television channel. It covers regional and international affairs from an Arab economic perspective....

, CNN)

Kevin Corriveau (CNN International, US Air Force)

Former presenters and correspondents

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

David Hawkins
David Hawkins
David Hawkins may refer to:*David Hawkins , American basketball player*David Hawkins , American youngest defector of the Korean War*David Hawkins , current Bishop of Barking...
Hamish Macdonald
Dave Marash
Dave Marash
David Marash, known as Dave Marash is an American television journalist.Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined Al Jazeera English in January 2006 as the network's Washington, D.C. anchor, thus becoming the de facto American face of the new English language station. Two years later,...

Maryam Nemazee
Arthur Neslen
Arthur Neslen
Arthur Neslen is a British-born journalist and author of two books about identity in the Middle East. Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche was published by Pluto Press in 2006 and In Your Eyes A Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian will be published by University of California Press...

Recruitment

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

Former BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

and CNN anchor Riz Khan

Rizwan Khan

Rizwan "Riz" Khan is a British television news reporter and interviewer who until April 2011 hosted his own eponymous television show on Al Jazeera English. He first rose to prominence while working for the BBC and CNN....

, who previously had been the host of the CNN talk show

Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television program or radio program where one person discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host....

Q&A, also joined. He hosts his shows Riz Khan and Riz Khan's One on One.

Former U.S. Marine

United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...

Josh Rushing joined Al Jazeera in September 2005. He had been the press officer for the United States Central Command

United States Central Command

The United States Central Command is a theater-level Unified Combatant Command unit of the U.S. armed forces, established in 1983 under the operational control of the U.S. Secretary of Defense...

during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...

, 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

James Wright

James Wright or Jim Wright may refer to:*James Homer Wright , American pathologist*James Wright , President of Dartmouth College, historian*James Wright , American creator of Silly Putty...

, and Kieran Baker, a former editor and producer for CNN, who most recently was Acting General Manager, Communications and Public Participation for ICANN

ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...

. 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 is Tony Burman

Tony Burman

Tony Burman is the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.Previously, he served as Al Jazeera's chief strategic advisor for the Americas, 2010-2011, based in Washington DC. He also served as managing director of the Al Jazeera English network, based in Doha,...

, 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. It can be streamed live worldwide for free through Livestation. A low quality RealVideo

RealVideo

RealVideo is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks – the specific format changes with the version. It was first released in 1997 and is at version 10. RealVideo is supported on many platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and several mobile...

stream allows viewing. Al Jazeera news segments are frequently included on the American public television program Worldfocus

Worldfocus

Worldfocus was an American newscast focused on international news and reporting. The newscast was originally anchored by Martin Savidge and is now hosted by Daljit Dhaliwal. It was produced by WNET New York and distributed to U.S. public television stations by American Public Television...

. Al Jazeera can also be streamed on any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with a 3G or wifi conncection using a free application.

Online subscriptions allowing unlimited viewing may be purchased from Jump TV, RealPlayer, and VDC. Headlines from Al-Jazeera English are available on Twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

. According to the Al Jazeera English Watch Now webpage, not all services are available everywhere due to licensing/distribution restrictions.

The New York Times on 16 April 2007 reported that Al Jazeera English would begin running segments from its shows on the Internet video-sharing site YouTube.

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

Freesat

Freesat is a free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc, serving the United Kingdom. The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2008...

, 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

Rogers Cable

, Videotron

Vidéotron

Vidéotron GP is a Canadian integrated telecommunications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, cable telephony, wireless communication and Internet access services. Currently, the company primarily serves Quebec, as well as the francophone...

and Bell TV on 4 May 2010.

In New Zealand, Triangle TV

Triangle TV

Triangle Television and Stratos Television are public service television stations based in Auckland, New Zealand. Triangle broadcasts across Auckland on analogue UHF, while Stratos broadcasts around New Zealand on the Freeview, Sky TV and TelstraClear cable digital platforms...

re-broadcasts various Al Jazeera programmes in Auckland on free-to-air UHF channels as does Stratos free-to-air via Freeview satellite.

In April 2010, Al Jazeera English was taken off air in mio TV

Mio TV

mio TV is a 24-hours pay-TV service, introduced by SingTel. It is transmitted through the company's SingNet broadband network via an IPTV service and uses Microsoft Mediaroom as its end to end software platform. It is a service that will allow multimedia content - including broadcast channels and...

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

Hot Bird

Hot Bird is the name of a popular family of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the Equator and with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East....

, Astra

SES Astra

Astra is the name for the geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES S.A., a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg. The name is sometimes also used to describe the channels broadcasting from these...

Astra 1E

Astra 1E is a communications satellite owned and operated by SES Astra, and launched in 1995 to the Astra 19.2°E orbital slot to provide digital television and radio for DTH across Europe....

, Hispasat, AsiaSat

AsiaSat

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. is a commercial operator of communication spacecraft. AsiaSat is based in Hong Kong with two major shareholders, CITIC and General Electric.-Satellites:...

3S, Eurobird 1 and Panamsat PAS 10. Telenor

Telenor

Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...

s 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

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Satellite and cable companies would therefore be allowed to broadcast Al Jazeera in the country. The channel will be launched soon on Dish TV

Dish TV

Dish TV India Limited is an Indian company engaged in the business of providing direct-to-home satellite television service, which includes teleport service, customer support and transponder space leasing. Dishtv is a division of Zee Network Enterprise . It uses MPEG-2 digital compression...

, and is considering a Hindi-language channel.

United States

Al Jazeera English is available via satellite across all of North America free to air via GlobeCast World TV

GlobeCast World TV

GlobeCast World TV is a direct-to-home provider of free-to-air and Nagravision-encrypted ethnic television and audio channels via the Galaxy 19 satellite received in North America...

on Galaxy 19

Galaxy 19

Galaxy 19 is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat located at 97° West longitude, serving the North American market. Galaxy 19 replaced Galaxy 25 which is nearing the end of its design life and has been moved to 93.1°W longitude. It was built by Space Systems/Loral, as part of its FS-1300...

on the Ku band

Ku band

The Kμ band is a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the microwave range of frequencies. This symbol refers to —in other words, the band directly below the K-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

Bristol County, Rhode Island

The border with Bristol County, Massachusetts is rather unusual since the counties both share the same name. The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Union Parish, Louisiana and Union...

; Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

Toledo is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, on the western end of Lake Erie, and borders the State of Michigan...

and Sandusky, Ohio

Sandusky, Ohio

Sandusky is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County. It is located in northern Ohio and is situated on the shores of Lake Erie, almost exactly half-way between Toledo to the west and Cleveland to the east....

; Burlington, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....

; Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

; and Washington, DC. Industry giant Comcast

Comcast

Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

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

DirecTV

DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

and Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

, had similar plans but also changed their minds, with speculation that the decision may have been influenced by allegations by the Bush

George W. Bush

administration of "anti-American bias" in the channel.

With Al Jazeera's coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

2011 Egyptian revolution

The 2011 Egyptian revolution took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 and is still continuing as of November 2011. The uprising was mainly a campaign of non-violent civil resistance, which featured a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil...

, 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

Comcast

and Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

. Salon.com

Salon.com

Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...

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

Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis is an American journalist. Previously he was a television critic for TV Guide and People magazine, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner.-Career:Until recently Jarvis was...

claimed it was "un-American" for operators to not carry the network. When Al Jazeera covered the 2011 Libyan civil war

2011 Libyan civil war

The 2011 Libyan civil war was an armed conflict in the North African state of Libya, fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and those seeking to oust his government. The war was preceded by protests in Benghazi beginning on 15 February 2011, which led to clashes with security...

, 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

Roku

Roku , is an American, privately held, consumer electronics company that sells home digital media products. The Company is based in Saratoga, California.- Company profile and products :...

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 an 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 by going to https://owner.roku.com/Add/newscaster. Roku is used to stream Netflix

Netflix

Netflix, Inc., is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California...

and Hulu

Hulu

Hulu is a website and over-the-top subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, and Obstacle on October 20th 2011 Nickelodeon and CBS and many other...

content as well as many other private channels.

On Monday, 1 August 2011, Al Jazeera English began airing 23 hours a day in New York City

New York City

as part of a sublet agreement with cable channel RISE, a former Spanish-language network. The network airs on Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

on channel 92 and on Verizon FiOS

Verizon FiOS

Verizon FiOS is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and television service which operates over a fiber-optic communications network. It is offered in some areas of the United States by Verizon Communications. Verizon was one of the first major U.S...

on channel 466.

Anti-American bias

Emmy award winning journalist Dave Marash, who served as a veteran correspondent for ABC's Nightline

Nightline

Nightline, or ABC News Nightline is a late-night news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. It airs weeknights, usually for 31 minutes. Created by Roone Arledge, the program featured Ted Koppel as its main...

, 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 February 14, 2011 however, Dave Marash defended Al Jazeera English on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News.

In 2004, Accuracy in Media

Accuracy in Media

Accuracy In Media is an American, non-profit news media watchdog founded in 1969 by economist Reed Irvine. AIM describes itself as "a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that...

, a conservative non-profit American media watchdog group, also criticized Al Jazeera for its "anti-American" stance.

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Al Jazeera International Commissioning
Telecommunications Companies Block Expansion of Al Jazeera English in the U.S. – video report by Democracy Now!
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
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Philosophy

Launch and reach

Programmes

International bureau

Middle East

Africa

Europe

The Americas

Asia and Australasia

Current

Former presenters and correspondents

Recruitment

Availability

United States

Anti-American bias

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Further reading

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