When the network launched in , it radically changed the media landscape of the Arab world. Two decades later, some regimes are still seething. With the collapse of Al Jazeera America, there may be a case for RT America as a purveyor of progressive, alternative journalism. Al Jazeera America was not launched to make a profit, but its traditional broadcast distribution model meant it also lacked influence.
They were all released, but Jaballah was later sentenced in absentia. He would remain in jail for seven months before his acquital and release. One team was deployed in Rabaa al-Adawiya square, which had been a place for thousands of people to protest the coup peacefully up until August 14, , when the military moved in to destroy it. Al Jazeera provided extensive coverage of the massacre that was committed there, described by Human Rights Watch as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history.
Four Al Jazeera journalists were detained. One of the reporters for Al Jazeera Arabic, Abdullah al-Shami, was detained without charge for 10 months. He went on hunger strike for four months, and was finally released on June 17, , and relocated to the headquarters in Doha. On September 8, , al-Shami was sentenced in absentia to 15 years imprisonment. In September, it was discovered that the Egyptian military was behind a sustained effort to distort the satellite signal of Al Jazeera, which was and still is free to air across the Arab world.
Fawzy was released shortly thereafter, but the rest spent more than a year in jail. Al Jazeera launched a global campaign to protest the violations of press freedoms, JournalismIsNotaCrime. In June , an Egyptian court sentenced Fawzy, Greste, Mohamed, Fahmy and five others to prison terms ranging between years.
The five are:. In May - taking a cue from Syrian authorities who had confiscated the property of one of Al Jazeera's most prominent talk show hosts, Faisal Alkasim - Egyptian authorities confiscated the personal property of Ahmed Mansour. Mansour was also a star talk show host. By October he had been sentenced in absentia to a year prison term. In response to an Egyptian arrest warrant, Mansour was detained for a short while at the airport in Berlin in June In December , one month after Al Jazeera broadcast a documentary on compulsory inscription in Egypt, the authorities in Cairo arrested Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian journalist working in the headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha.
Hussein had traveled to Egypt to visit his family. As of mid, Hussein had spent almost two years under interrogation, without charge. Countless Egyptian journalists - some affiliated with Al Jazeera, others not - have been pursued relentlessly since the media crackdown that began in In the span of four years, Al Jazeera lost seven brave souls who defied everything to tell the world what was going on in the fog of Syria's war.
Mohamed Al-Massalma was killed on January 18, , by a sniper. He was a correspondent, covering the fighting in Deraa, in southern Syria. Hussein Abbas was killed on May 1, He was a citizen journalist on his way home after covering fighting in the outskirts of Idlib, in northern Syria. Mohamed Al Qasim was killed on September 10, , in an ambush staged by unidentified assailts, while on his way back from covering the fighting in the outskirts of Idlib.
Mahran Al Deery was killed on December 10, Mohammed al-Asfar was killed on June 26, He was a cameraman, and was filming clashes in the Manshiya neighborhood of Deraa.
Zakariya Ibrahim was killed on December 7. He was a cameraman, and he was hit by shrapnel while covering the bombardment of a suburb of Homs, in western Syria.
Ibrahim Al Omar was killed on July 11, The channel was lauded for its level-headed coverage of politics, culture and business in North and South America, and brought fresh perspectives from around the world to a US audience. According to a Bilateral Investment Treaty between Egypt and Qatar — which guaranteed fair treatment of investors in each country — Al Jazeera had to wait for six months before formalizing the arbitration process.
Al Jazeera waited more one year for the Egyptian government to engage in fruitful discussions. On May 3, , the website and its platforms were shut down as part of a "workforce optimization" carried out by Al Jazeera Media Network, according to a statement from the Network, which added that the decision to shut down the platform was difficult but "consistent with the developments in the media industry worldwide. Specializing in videos optimized for mobile devices, it quickly shot to the forefront of the social media news revolution.
After Saudi Arabia launched its military intervention in Yemen in March , the country became more dangerous than usual for journalists. They were later released. In August, Mubarak Al-Ebadi, a Yemeni journalist freelancing with Al Jazeera, was killed while reporting on the fighting in Al Jawf, in the northern part of the country. See entry on all Al Jazeera journalists killed in the line of duty. Under the banner of "Journalism at Risk," IPI members from across the globe exchanged experiences on best practices for journalists to cover events safely and independently.
IPI is a global network of journalists, editors and media executives from nearly countries from across the world and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in to defend media freedom and the free flow of information. On March 21, , Al Jazeera hosted more than delegates of media organizations from countries in Doha as part of the World Media Summit.
Opening ceremony of the World Media Summit in Doha. On its 20th birthday November Al Jazeera Arabic undertook its biggest shifting of programming in years, with 14 new shows launching on the screen:. Presented by former Gaza correspondent Tamer Misshal. The morning show was added to Al Jazeera's lineup in November Now defunct, as the host, Ali Dhufairi a Saudi citizen , was forced to resign from Al Jazeera at the outset of the Gulf crisis.
Hosted by Nazih Al-Ahdab. Nazih Al-Ahdab takes a cynical look at the week's news. Instead of a traditional one-hour news broadcast covering the events of the day, the show now focuses on the three biggest topics of the day, and devotes about 20 minutes to each.
This immersive studio houses all of the Network's virtual reality and augmented reality storytelling initiatives. Pushing the boundaries of narrative storytelling. On June 5, Saudi Arabia withdrew the license for Al Jazeera to operate in the country, and on the next day, Jordan followed suit.
On June 9, Saudi officials threatened to cancel the license of any hotel in the kingdom that offered Al Jazeera in its guest rooms. For a few hours on June 17, , the main Twitter handle of Al Jazeera Arabic — with 12 million followers at the time — was suspended.
Officials in Riyadh demanded that any Saudi nationals who worked for Al Jazeera resign. On June 21, Al Jazeera lost a well-respected talk show host, Ali Dhufairi, amongst other journalists. On September 13, , Snap Inc. Four days later Snapchat complied. Snap had been in long discussions with Al Jazeera in the run-up to launching Arabic channels in Snapchat Discover, and Al Jazeera had just become available in May of that year.
The political rift between Qatar and her neighbors dominated the headlines in the second half of On November 1, , Al Jazeera launched an audio-first media brand, Jetty. The podcast studio specializes in finding diverse voices and developing original news and entertainment for global audiophiles.
Jetty debuted with Closer Than They Appear, hosted by Carvell Wallace, who presented a mashup of personal narratives and conversations about life in modern-day America. In October , Jetty launched, "The Take," a look at the week's most important issues. In March the studio launched "Game of Our Lives," a series of conversations with sports writer David Goldblatt, focusing on the intersection between football aka soccer and power, race, class, gender and culture.
Over the course of two seasons Season 2 launched in June , Goldblatt examined the dual themes of globalisation and human nature through the lens of the world's most popular sport. More than films from 30 countries competed. The leadership of Al Jazeera Balkans said the festival is one of the ways the Channel is promoting documentary film and supporting filmmakers in Central Europe. A delegation from Al Jazeera Media Network attended the annual event to connect with African distribution platforms and companies, expand opportunities of content acquisition from the African market and get more exposure for the Al Jazeera brand.
Their objective was also to increase distribution of Al Jazeera's channels on platforms in Africa. More than 1, delegates representing companies attended the expo, including ad agencies, design studios and media leaders.
Skip to main content. We'll keep on shedding light on the dark corners, and telling the stories that need to be told. Our History. What's in a name? All of the following apply: It can refer to the Arabian peninsula in general. It can refer to Qatar, which is a peninsula within the Arabian peninsula. Al Jazeera as an island of professional journalism in a part of the world where professional journalism is traditionally not prevalent. A Bureau in Afghanistan In Afghanistan, the Taliban government had given permission for three international media organisations to open bureaus in the capital.
Photo: AP Clashes began to spread throughout the occupied Palestinian territories. Al Jazeera was the channel of record on the crisis for the next four years.
Egypt: A glimmer of hope for jailed Al Jazeera journalists? Egyptian court orders retrial of jailed Jazeera journalists. FreeAJStaff one year on. Wael Eskandar, Egyptian journalist and blogger. Iraq crisis: Baghdad residents living in fear. The channel provides both a regional voice and a global perspective to a world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview.
Al Jazeera's programs reach millions of viewers worldwide through various satellite and cable systems , and continue to expand their range to reach more viewers Continue for an in-depth look at Al Jazeera's Audience Demographics. While the programs offered mainly focus on global news and events of the day, they also offer an assortment of programs covering a range of regional topics.
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