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Al Jazeera English & Al Jazeera America

(January 2006)

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LO
Londoner
And now Broadcast says Rageh Omar has signed up to present a daily documentary strand on the channel
LO
Londoner
The BBC's Barnaby Phillips is the latest recruit
DO
dodrade
What would Al jazzera's budget be in comparison to other 24 hour news channels? Money seems no object to their headhunting.
JH
Jonathan H
dodrade posted:
What would Al jazzera's budget be in comparison to other 24 hour news channels? Money seems no object to their headhunting.


You've answered your own question there! To your question, the answer is "no". To your last statement, I'd say "almost".
IS
Inspector Sands
dodrade posted:
What would Al jazzera's budget be in comparison to other 24 hour news channels? Money seems no object to their headhunting.


The Emir of Qatar who funds the channel does have very deep pockets

52 days later

ZO
zola25
does anyone know when the channel starts cant wait to see felicity. ive got a vid of her in wait for it a skirt Very Happy
IO
Ian of old
Londoner posted:
The BBC's Barnaby Phillips is the latest recruit


I wondered what News 24 would do with their countdowns when one of the featured faces leaves... is he the first? Will they replace the shots of him in the countdown or just not bother?
KK
Killie Kingdom
This is who will also be join AJI (Quote taken from Sundayherald):

"Paul McKinney, former head of news at STV, has resurfaced with a senior role at Al Jazeera in Qatar. McKinney quit STV in October 2004, reportedly after a disagreement over strategy. He has spent the intervening months at Oxfam. At least Al Jazeera eschews sensationalism. Ahem."

By the way Felicity will missed a lot, does anyone think she'll do BETTER at AJI than at ITN?
IS
Inspector Sands
Jane Lewis Fan posted:
This is who will also be join AJI (Quote taken from Sundayherald):

"Paul McKinney, former head of news at STV, has resurfaced with a senior role at Al Jazeera in Qatar. McKinney quit STV in October 2004, reportedly after a disagreement over strategy. He has spent the intervening months at Oxfam. At least Al Jazeera eschews sensationalism. Ahem."


And of course that Sunday Herald journalist has fluent understanding of Arabic so that they could watch Al Jazeera and make comment on it. Rolling Eyes
KK
Killie Kingdom
Well only time will tell to say whether they'll find it better going than where they used to be. Rolling Eyes

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LO
Londoner
More new recruits to AJI - this time sports journos - including Joanna Gasiorowska of the ITV NC:

Quote:
Joanna Gasiorowska from ITV's Evening News and two presenters from Five News - Rahul Pathak and Andrew Richardson - have joined al-Jazeera International to host its weekly magazine programme, Sportsworld.

They are joined by Carrie Brown from Eurosport, CBC Canada's Brendan Connor, cricket specialist Imran Garda from South Africa's Supersport channel and Dara McIntosh, formerly of ESPN and NBC in the US.

More: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1771807,00.html?gusrc=rss
IS
Isonstine Founding member
Londoner posted:
More new recruits to AJI - this time sports journos - including Joanna Gasiorowska of the ITV NC:

Quote:
Joanna Gasiorowska from ITV's Evening News and two presenters from Five News - Rahul Pathak and Andrew Richardson - have joined al-Jazeera International to host its weekly magazine programme, Sportsworld.

They are joined by Carrie Brown from Eurosport, CBC Canada's Brendan Connor, cricket specialist Imran Garda from South Africa's Supersport channel and Dara McIntosh, formerly of ESPN and NBC in the US.

More: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1771807,00.html?gusrc=rss


I like the slightly camp picture of all the people involved

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2006/05/10/AJsports128.jpg

Just LOOK at them posing.

Is this what we're to expect from the new channel?

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