AL-JAZEERA COMES UNDER ATTACK IN YEMEN

Yemen has become the latest country in the Middle East to crack down on al-Jazeera journalists covering political unrest in the region. On Thursday authorities there withdrew accreditation of all reporters, cameramen and other staffers working for the Arab news network and ordered that their offices in the country be closed. Appearing on the channel, [...]

GADDAFI LOYALISTS REPORTEDLY KILL AL-JAZEERA CAMERAMAN

An al-Jazeera cameraman has been shot and killed in an apparent ambush attack as he was returning from covering an anti-Gaddafi protest near the town of Benghazi, which is under the control of rebels. Al-Jazeera said that an on-air correspondent was also shot and has been hospitalized. Wadah Khanfar, director-general of al-Jazeera attributed the killing [...]

AL-JAZEERA MEETS WITH COMCAST

Following much critical praise for al-Jazeera English’s coverage of the recent political upheaval in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, three representatives of the Qatar-based news network met in Philadelphia last week with Comcast representatives in hopes of persuading the U.S.’s largest cable operator to give it an outlet on its systems. With few exceptions (it can [...]

AL-JAZEERA, COMCAST OPEN TALKS

In the wake of overwhelmingly positive critical and public reaction to its coverage of the upheaval in the Middle East, available in the U.S. via the Internet, al-Jazeera English has begun negotiating with Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, hoping finally to land an outlet on its system. In an interview with Reuters, al-Jazeera English [...]

AL-JAZEERA TAKES A VICTORY LAP

TV critics are continuing to praise al-Jazeera’s coverage of the Egyptian uprising, with several suggesting that its young, erudite reporters in the streets and its seasoned studio anchors displayed a more authoratative grasp of the situation than their American broadcast network and cable news counterparts. In the New York Times, Alessandra Stanley noted that it [...]

ATTACKS ON REPORTERS CONTINUE IN EGYPT

Arab-American reporter Ayman Mohyeldin, an anchor for al-Jazeera English, was arrested by the Egyptian military and held for seven hours in Cairo on Sunday, the network said. Mohyeldin’s arrest was the latest in an apparently coordinated military effort to intimidate journalists in general, and al-Jazeera journalists in particular, who are covering the Egyptian protests. Earlier [...]

AL-JAZEERA’S CAIRO BUREAU CHIEF ARRESTED

The head of al-Jazeera’s bureau in Cairo, Abdel Fattah Fayed, and a reporter for the Qatar-based news network, Mohammed Fawi, were arrested by Egyptian security forces, the network said on its website today (Saturday). UPDATE: They were released several hours later, Reuters reported. The arrests occurred a day after unprecedented attacks on the news media [...]

FOX’S O’REILLY BLASTS MUCH-PRAISED AL-JAZEERA

Even as al-Jazeera was winning overwhelming praise in the West for its coverage of the turmoil in Tunisia and Egypt and battling authorities trying to shut it down, it was being denounced Tuesday night by Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, who showed clips of guests who had appeared on the network making anti-U.S. and anti-Israel comments. [...]

U.S. CABLE COMPANIES HAVE NO PLANS TO ADD AL-JAZEERA

The New York Times has polled the leading cable TV providers in the U.S. about their intent to carry al-Jazeera English in light of its much-praised coverage of the Egyptian protests. Most indicated that they had no plans to do so, but Charter Cable said, “We haven’t had any contact with them in the past [...]

AL-JAZEERA WINS PLAUDITS FOR EGYPT COVERAGE

Al-Jazeera continued non-stop broadcasting out of Egypt on Monday even as Egyptian authorities made what appeared to be clumsy moves to shut it down. The government has blocked entrance to the Arab news network’s offices in Cairo, arrested at least two of its news crews then released them after confiscating their equipment. And while all [...]

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