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After gaining 29 percent in their first day of trading, Rivian shares soared as much as 24 percent Thursday. Much of what the world knows about Al Qaeda and its leader at the time, Osama bin Laden, came from videotapes of bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera, where he ruminated on global affairs and East-West relations. Al Jazeera soon became one of the primary sources of news coming from the Arab and Muslim worlds.
The contract called for Rendon to track "the location and use of Al Jazeera news bureaus, reporters and stringers, both regionally and globally. TRG [The Rendon Group] will also chart event-related regional media coverage to identify the biases of specific journalists and potentially obtain an understanding of their allegiances.
Al Jazeera aired a tape of bin Laden discussing the US war on Afghanistan two hours after the initial bombing began. Bin Laden disappeared for years. He was killed by US forces in Pakistan almost 10 years later, on May 2, Tayseer Allouni was Al Jazeera's first bureau chief in Kabul.
On a visit to see his family in Grenada, Spain, in September , he was arrested by Spanish police and sentenced to seven years imprisonment on 26 September Al Jazeera launched a campaign to fight for freedom of the press, and the unfettered right to interview newsmakers and access sources of information. Allouni was released from jail on October 6, , but served the rest of the term under house arrest. Sami Al Hajj, a native of Sudan, was a cameraman for Al Jazeera, and was in Pakistan on December 15, , when he was detained and handed over to US forces, who deemed him an "enemy combatant.
Sami was transferred to Guantanamo Bay internment camp, and endured horrendous conditions for years. To protest the treatment, he and several other prisoners went on a hunger strike starting in January He remained on hunger strike for days, until he was released, on May 1, Al Jazeera journalists stand in solidarity with Sami, circa He had been covering a demonstration in support of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden in the southern town of Ma'an.
Security forces also detained another one of Al Jazeera's correspondents in the Amman buruea, Sowsan Abu Hamda, for questioning. Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Amman , Yaser Abuhilala. Al Jazeera was the only media organization covering the event. In June, the Saudi government accused an Al Jazeera programme of insulting the country's royal family.
The channel was banned from covering the pilgrimage to Mecca the following year and was later barred from the country except to cover special events, with special permission. In November , Kuwait shut down the Al Jazeera bureau again, after the Channel reported that the entire northwestern part of the country was shut down for US-Kuwaiti war exercises. Al Jazeera established a bureau in Beijing in It opened a fascinating window into China for the Arab world, and vice versa. Al Jazeera's reporters covered the events of Tibet in , providing exclusive footage of the clashes between monks and security forces inside the Dharamsala monastery.
The bureau covers all aspects of life in China, including the situation of the Muslim communities in East Turkestan, and provides access to neighboring countries, including North Korea and Myanmar.
In , Al Jazeera expanded its China operation to launch a digital presence in Mandarin. Al Jazeera content is also available on Weibo. On December 23, , Al Jazeera's legendary and long-serving bureau chief in Beijing, Ezzat Shahrour, passed away at the age of He was succeeded by Nasser Abdul Haq.
In late , Al Jazeera launched its English website , with a mix of original reporting and translation of Al Jazeera Arabic content. Look and feel of Al Jazeera's English-language website in Four days after the United States launched its ongoing war on Iraq March 20, the site was hacked. Al Jazeera had crews in all major population centers in Iraq, and went to great lengths to cover the unfolding events.
While other media told people where the rockets were fired from, Al Jazeera was showing where they land. Al Jazeera assistant cameraman Zouhair Nadhim, who was on the bureau's roof with Ayyoub, was injured in the blast.
Al Jazeera's former Kabul bureau chief, Tayseer Allouni, had just finished an overnight shift reporting from the rooftop of the building. Allouni then went to visit friends in the Palestine Hotel, where foreign journalists were based. For 9 years Al Jazeera Sport Channel was a runaway success. This channel was spun off in and merged into a new and independent company, beIN Media Group. On November 3, , he was filming the aftermath of a roadside bomb attack on a US military convoy in Dialah.
US forces arrested him, and repeated a popular refrain of US forces and politicians in Afghanistan and Iraq: the false claim that Al Jazeera has advance knowledge of attacks.
Salah was made to endure horrendous torture in Abu Ghraib, as was one of his colleagues in the Al Jazeera Baghdad bureau, Suheib Badr Darwish, who was arrested on November 18, Salah was released a month later, on December 18, Darwish was released on January 25, The proceedings were ongoing as of The lawsuit of Al Jazeera journalist Salah Hasan and other Iraqi citizens against their abusers was still active in US courts as of Al Jazeera provided extensive coverage to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, which erupted in February In December , security forces in Khartoum arrested Al Jazeera correspondent Islam Saleh on charges of "airing news containing false information and biased analysis aimed at smearing Sudan's image.
By January , Sudanese officials were considering the suspension of Al Jazeera's license to operate in Sudan. In February , Saleh was accused of "defaming Sudan by spreading fake news. They were all released later without charge, but the continuous stream of run-ins with the new authorities was indicative of the uncomfortable sitation. Atwar was one of Iraq's best-known journalists.
She left Al Jazeera in February , and was assassinated three weeks later, while reporting in Samarra. Maher Abdullah , one of the most well-known faces of Al Jazeera. Pictured here reporting live from Baghdad. Iraq's US-installed interim governing council again prohibited Al Jazeera from covering its activities for a month. On April 5, , US forces attempted to enter the Iraqi city of Fallujah, but were confronted by fierce resistance and suffered human and material losses.
Al Jazeera provided rolling coverage from Fallujah, which was subjected to the wrath of the US military after four American mercenaries working for Blackwater were killed there in March. Verbal attacks by US officials against Al Jazeera escalated.
As the quagmire in Iraq broadened, media sources reported on supposed unpublished minutes of a discussion between US President George W. David Blunkett, a former British interior minister, revealed in his memoirs published in October that, during the US-led invasion of Iraq in , he suggested to Blair that the British military should bomb the Al Jazeera television transmitter in Baghdad. On August 7, , the interim Iraqi government ordered a one-month closure of Al Jazeera's Baghdad bureau.
The shutdown was extended indefinitely in September, and the bureau was sealed for more than six years. The ban was finally lifted on March 3, Al Jazeera continued to work from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the autonomous region located in the northern part of the country.
A year later, the ban was lifted, and Al Jazeera resumed work in its Baghdad bureau. In , the Department was elevated in stature to become a Directorate - investigating matters of accuracy, fairness, balance and taste in Al Jazeera coverage, and making recommendations for continual improvement. Al Jazeera Media Training Centre was established on February 24, , with the dual mission of providing continual development for Al Jazeera journalists, and training journalists from all across the world.
It provides courses in all facets of journalism, media-related technology, the management of news organizations, and public communication. Beginning and mid-career journalists hone their skills with some of the best trainers in the world here.
Inside the auditorium of the Al Jazeera Training Institute. A decade after its establishment, the center expanded to become the Al Jazeera Media Training Institute. The Institute has an extensive network of strategic partnerships with reputable media institutions and circles - all well-known on a local, regional and international level. The Institute continues to consolidate its relations and partnerships, and build new strategic partnerships with various media schools, in order to create a realistic media environment.
The Institute also provides media institutions with consultancies to help them develop their potential and attain their strategic plans. Acting as the eyes and ears of the Arab world, Al Jazeera Mubasher was launched in early to give viewers real-time footage of global and regional events. Remote feeds and on-the-ground cameras broadcast political gatherings, press conferences, discussions and meetings, bringing audiences the latest on political, social, cultural and economic affairs.
Screenshot from Al Jazeera Mubasher. A branch of Mubasher focused on Egypt Mubasher Misr was launched during the Arab revolts against dictatorship in Amidst a relentless clampdown on the channel's journalists, Mubasher Misr was suspended on December 23, For 11 years, the Festival and annual awards ceremony became a meeting point for filmmakers and innovators worldwide.
Al Jazeera's film festival was a major event in the region up until The first year focused on Arabic-language made-for-TV productions only. The second year accepted entries from the Arab and non-Arab world.
By the third year, documentary feature films ie, not produced for television were included, and this continued until the last time the Festival was held: November , In the spring of , Al Jazeera was one of the first media organisations to provide extensive reporting on the depth of the famine in Niger. Tens of thousands of people in central Africa were on the verge of starving to death.
Coverage of the famine in Niger After the crisis received global attention - due to the reporting of several media organizations, and a concerted diplomatic effort - aid trickled into the region. In November , an unidentified assasilant attacked Ahmed Mansour, one of Al Jazeera's star talk-show hosts in Egypt.
Security forces confiscated her tapes and charged her with tarnishing the country's reputation. Taha produced a documentary on the torture of citizens in Egyptian police stations. Al Jazeera is a consistent target of hacks from states and non-state actors.
One of the few free and fair elections in the Arab world took place in the occupied Palestinian territories on January 25, Al Jazeera provided blanket coverage of the vote for a legislature, and was the first to report that Hamas had won while other media organizations were waffling. After it became clear that the two major Palestinian parties would not be able to create a government of national unity, and the world community moved to nullify the results of the elections, Al Jazeera named the Hamas government in Gaza, "the deposed government," much to the ire of the Palestinian Authority, based in Ramallah.
Al Jazeera had a significant role in reporting the July war from both sides of the borders. Its correspondents covered the loss of life - more than 1, Lebanese and Israelis - and the severe damage to Lebanon's civilian infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced on both sides of the conflict. The Al Jazeera Center for Studies was founded in to provide deep research and data to Al Jazeera's journalists, and provide public platforms for the global exchange of ideas.
The Center is home to world-class researchers and authors. The Center hosts ad hoc seminars and background briefings by opinion leaders and decision makers, and publishes policy briefs and analysis throughout the year. The Center organizes the annual Al Jazeera Forum, bringing thinkers, politicians, academics and journalists together to discuss regional and global transformations. The Index is the result of an international survey of over 1, scholars, public and private donors, policy makers, and journalists who help rank more than 6, think tanks using a set of criteria developed at the University.
The channel was a major investment in the future of global media, bringing together some of the best English-speaking journalists from anywhere in the world together, under one roof. At launch, the channel broadcast from Kuala Lumpur, London, Washington and Doha, but over time, the major news studios were set in Doha and London. Original concept for Doha newsroom and studio of Al Jazeera English. In the channel's newsrooms, people from dozens of different nationalities focused on the concerns of the Global South, providing fresh perspectives on the issues of our times.
For years, the channel's motto was, "Voice of the Voiceless. Within months of launch, the Channel cemented its position as a global presence in the media landscape, attracting audiences of millions in all four corners of the globe.
In , Al Jazeera was one of the few media organisations that managed to enter Ogaden, a bitterly disputed region between Somalia and Ethiopia. Al Jazeera filed five reports on the conditions of the residents of the province, triggering years of tension between Ethiopia and Al Jazeera.
The Channel supports Arab filmmaking by serving as an advocate for the Arab documentary industry. As of , Al Jazeera's English-language service can be viewed in every major European market, and is available to million homes in over countries via cable and satellite. 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.
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.
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