FollowtheMedia (Write On): A look at Al Jazeera English coverage of Gaza
By and large, Al Jazeera is ‘doing ok’ in its Gaza coverage, writes Philip Stone. He takes a look at the aspects of its reporting and concludes that “its coverage of the Mumbai attacks and now Gaza...
View ArticleUpdate on Al Jazeera coverage of Gaza: mapping and incident lists
Further to the Follow the Media comment we picked out this morning, here’s a visual explanation of Al Jazeera’s Gaza coverage. Senior New Media Analyst Riyaad Minty outlines the multimedia coverage in...
View ArticleGaza, African coverage and tonight’s RTS awards – breakfast table chat with...
This morning Al Jazeera English’s managing director, Tony Burman, held a breakfast meeting in London and invited journalists along to ask about latest developments at the channel. Burman is in town for...
View ArticleDNA09: Event host Richard Gizbert on making a living from media-gazing
Al Jazeera’s Richard Gizbert co-hosted this week’s Digital News and Affairs 2009 conference, leading sessions, asking questions and throwing in a bit of his own perspective. Journalism.co.uk managed to...
View ArticleThoughts from Doha: a Q&A with Al Jazeera’s Tarek Esber
Tarek Esber is senior analyst for Al Jazeera Mobile & New Media and based in Doha. Intrigued by his recent online updates, Journalism.co.uk sent him over a few questions. Firstly, we asked him...
View ArticleGoing it alone: Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondents live interview FRIDAY 2pm...
What happens when you find yourself as the only English-language television broadcaster at a breaking news scene? What happens when that breaking news scene is a major war in the middle east? That’s...
View ArticleArabian Business: Al Jazeera English ‘signs first major US TV deal’
“Al Jazeera English will begin its foray into the American market on July 1 after signing its first major US distribution deal with a cable TV company in the Washington DC area,” Arabian Business...
View ArticleOnline anonymity: Journalism.co.uk joins the debate on Al Jazeera English
Journalism.co.uk’s office – and me – got an appearance on Al Jazeera English this week. The media show Listening Post looked at the issue of online anonymity as part of today’s programme. It also...
View ArticleYouTube and Al Jazeera English create video archive of Iraq elections
Al Jazeera English’s latest project in partnership with YouTube’s CitizenTube channel really is a great showcase for the power of video as a medium and how aggregated, short-form video can be a...
View ArticleCNN’s news priorities – compared to Al Jazeera’s
A telling screen grab is doing the rounds – showing the discrepancy between CNN’s news coverage and Al Jazeera English’s. It shows the two channel’s front online pages, captured on the day Wikileaks...
View ArticleBuzzMachine: ‘Cable companies, add Al Jazeera English NOW!’
Writing on his BuzzMachine blog, Jeff Jarvis has called for US cable networks to start carrying Al Jazeera’s English-language network. Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera has been covering the civilian...
View ArticleWired: Al Jazeera English to launch social networking talk show
Al Jazeera English will soon be launching a new television show called The Stream which will closely integrate online communities and the news by harnessing social networking in both the sourcing and...
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The Economist’s Twitter followers click links, Al Jazeera’s retweet, study finds
A new study has looked at how six news sites’ Twitter followers engage and react to tweets. Twitter content publishing platform SocialFlow has assessed the Twitter audiences of Al-Jazeera English, BBC...
View ArticleMediaGuardian: Former Al Jazeera executive loses discrimination case
An London employment tribunal has dismissed a compensation claim made by Jo Burgin, the former executive at Al Jazeera English. She was seeking substantial compensation from the television network on...
View ArticleAl Jazeera English: Burmese blogger sentenced to 20 years in prison
Nay Phone Latt, the Myanmar blogger who was arrested after anti-government protests last year, has been given a 20 year prison sentence.Similar Posts: Reporters Without Borders: Life sentence for...
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