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Clockwise From Top Left is a truly global, 24-hour and Kamal Hyder, / Steve Chao, current affairs channel. Headquartered in , , Fauzia Ibrahim, / Mohamed Adow, James Bays, / , with broadcast centers in and Washington DC and more than 60 bureaus worldwide, Al Jazeera English is dedicated to putting the human story at the forefront of the news agenda. The channel’s mandate is to deliver journalism that has depth and to provide context for the transformative changes taking place across the globe. Al Jazeera English’s reporters look beyond the centers of power to examine issues that are shaping the world and to highlight stories from underreported regions that are too often overlooked by other media. Al Jazeera English’s international footprint continues to grow, now reaching more than 260 million households on 6 continents in more than 130 . Al Jazeera English IN

Clockwise From Top Left With over 130 staff located in North America alone, John Terrett, Alabama / Fault Lines, Race and the Al Jazeera English provides unique coverage of both Recession, Washington DC / Cath Turner, Washington DC Gabriel Elizondo, Gulf of / Arianna Huffington, mainstream and underreported stories in the United Talk to Al Jazeera / John Hendren, Iowa States and . The network’s broadcast center in Washington DC produces daily news segments and original programming, including long form documentaries, a daily discussion show, and a live, interactive show. Coverage of North America ranges from hard-hitting interviews with key decision makers to insightful profiles of people throughout Canada and the . Whether it’s devastating storms and their impact on the Midwest, immigration debates in Alabama, the debates surrounding Winnipeg’s aboriginal people, or wealth inequality and the Occupy Wall Street Movement, Al Jazeera English provides much needed context to North American stories for audiences at home and abroad. news presenters and correspondents

Al Jazeera English news presenters set the agenda on Clockwise From Top Left Folly Bah Thibault, Presenter / So Raham, Presenter screen and in the field, blending fresh talent with veteran Hashem Ahelbarra, / , Shiulie Ghosh, Presenter / Sami Zeidan, Presenter experience. Familiar faces from world media mix with rising stars to create an authoritative, dynamic and uncompromising team asking the questions that count. Al Jazeera English correspondents report with objectivity and professionalism across the globe. We recruit the best international talent from diverse backgrounds. Al Jazeera English strives to deliver incisive analysis and local context from the field that reveals the human impact of world news. Al Jazeera English by the numbers Al Jazeera Network has more than 60 bureaus The Al Jazeera English across the globe—the website receives majority are rooted in the 20 million visits Southern hemisphere. every month. Approximately 50% Imtiaz Tyab, Abbottabad, Pakistan of the Al Jazeera English website traffic comes from North America. The Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English global footprint has more than 1,000 continues to grow, highly experienced Al Jazeera’s YouTube broadcasting to staff from more than channel receives about more than 50 nationalities, 8 million views per 260 million making Al Jazeera month. Launched on households English’s newsroom April 16, 2007, in more than the most diverse in the Al Jazeera English 130 countries. the world. YouTube site has more Teresa Bo, Colombia than 28,000 videos. : Al Jazeera English is the Al Jazeera English only connecting the world channel to be headquartered In January 2011, in the . The Times praised Al Jazeera for covering the unrest In response to the famine in , Al in “long Jazeera’s New Media team started “Somalia before the Seb Walker, Haiti Speaks” in 2012, an online platform for Western news to text in their thoughts on the crisis Al Jazeera English was and possible solutions. media took the only international serious notice.” broadcaster to open a fully-staffed bureau in Al Jazeera was the only Port-au-Prince, Haiti, international broadcaster to document ongoing Al Jazeera English has more inside Gaza during the bureaus in the Southern war in 2009. earthquake relief efforts. hemisphere than any other international broadcaster. Nick Clark, Washington DC Al Jazeera English was the first Al Jazeera English international news replaced BBC World channel to open a on , Israeli satellite television in permanent bureau January 2007. Nicole Johnston, Gaza in in 2006. Haru Mutasa, Zimbabwe PRAISE FOR Al Jazeera “There was a plainspoken clarity and a depth to Al Jazeera English’s coverage… English’s Coverage of Americans have fallen for the arab uprisings Al Jazeera English’s authenticity” “ —The New Yorker “Al Jazeera was there, Even the covering the uprising, President of the in Egypt, in Tunisia, in Yemen, like no other United States news source.” is watching —Huffington Post Al Jazeera” —Business Insider “Al Jazeera English’s reporting on the unrest in Egypt was the envy of broadcasters Tony Birtley, the world over”

Ayman Mohyeldin, Egypt —Kansas City Star “In many ways, it is “The most Al Jazeera’s moment” comprehensive — coverage of any network in , Libya any language “An indispensable resource for U.S. viewers hands-down.”

transfixed by the uprisings” —TIME Magazine —The Nation Nazanine Moshiri, Tunisia Al Jazeera English Programs Al Jazeera English’s award-winning programming takes viewers inside the stories surrounding global news, providing rich context to ’s important issues. Combining current affairs, business, arts and entertainment this unique and diverse range of programming is hosted by both household names and acclaimed new talent. Fault Lines Witness Fault Lines takes you Through insightful beyond the U.S. headlines, documentaries, Witness putting a face to those presents the stories of the who are falling through people at the center of the the cracks of society while world’s significant events. holding the powerful to account.

The Fabulous People & Power Picture Show This investigative show The only international looks at how political and film show dedicated to corporate powers are cinemaphiles around abused – and who the world, FPS brings is ultimately affected. filmmakers face-to-face with a studio audience.

Earthrise THE STREAM Earthrise explores solutions The Stream is a social to today’s environmental media community with challenges, taking an its own daily television upbeat look at ecological, program on Al Jazeera scientific, technological, English. The show is and design projects the an aggregator of online world over. sources and discussion, seeking out unheard voices and untold angles related to the most compelling stories of the day. AJ Correspondent Al Jazeera reveals the Al Jazeera English’s weekly passion, experience and media watch program casts insight of its journalists as a critical eye over global they explore stories which media and dissects the have marked their lives media’s coverage of events and careers. and non-events.

Inside Story Empire Inside Story and Inside Host Story Americas are daily gathers international discussion shows that scholars and experts to dissect top stories from the analyze key issues and US and elsewhere while discuss the global powers offering a frank assessment behind major stories. of current events.

101 East FROST OVER Produced in , THE WORLD is a weekly Sir interviews discussion program that famous political leaders, highlights Asia-Pacific artists, movie stars current events. and other international newsmakers in this weekly program. Al Jazeera Peabody Awards English Coverage of the Arab Awakening 12 AWARDS Royal Television Society Huffington Post Awards Columbia Journalism Award 2011 Game Changers Awards 2011 20 News Channel of the Year Most Innovative Show, “The Stream” TIME MAGAZINE National Association of Black 100 Most Influential People 2011 Journalist Awards George Polk Award Excellence in Documentary 2011 Royal Television Society Television Documentary Award, Nominee, Channel of the Year 2010 “: Shouting in the Dark” MONTE-CARLO TV FESTIVAL Young Journalist of Best Television News Item 2010 the Year 2008 Alfred L. DuPont Awards Best 24-Hour News Program 2008 Columbia University Award, Silver International Emmys Baton Award to Fault Lines, “Haiti: 6 Nominee in News 2010 / 2009 Months On” International Television and Radio 2010 Nominee in Documentary 2009 Best International TV Documentary 2008 Nominee in Current Affairs 2009 / 2008 Scripps Howard Award Best 24-Hour News Program 2008 Nominee for Non-Fiction 2009 Jack . Howard Award for Excellence (Digital Emmy) in television reporting, “Bahrain: FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION (FPA) Shouting in the Dark” (UK) News Story of the Year 2008 News Channel of the Year and History Makers News Events Coverage of the Year 2011 ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL International Awards Best News Channel of the Year BROADCASTERS (AIB) Nominee, Best Current Affairs 2010 / 2009 Editors Award 2008 Program, “Fault Lines: Mexico: Impunity and Profits,” Online Journalism Awards CONCENTRA Nominee, Best Interactive Production, Breaking News 2010 / 2009 “The Stream: Bahrain’s Political Breaking News Coverage, Large Site 2011 Future” AL JAZEERA BUREAUS WORLDWIDE

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Al Jazeera English New Media Additional Carriage Livestation MHz Worldview IN North America A live stream is available at Al Jazeera English’s morning and www..com/Al Jazeera English nightly newscasts are shown on Washington DC MHz worldview, which can be seen - Channel 275 YouTube in 30 major US markets. Cox - Channel 474 Nearly all Al Jazeera English programs are Verizon FiOS - Channel 457 available at www..com/ Free Speech TV (FSTV) aljazeeraenglish FSTV airs Al Jazeera English’s New York nightly news bulletin and programs Aljazeera.net/English - Channel 92 The Stream and Fault Lines. FSTV Watch a live stream of Al Jazeera English and is channel 9415 on Ohio view daily news bulletins on the Al Jazeera and channel 348 on DirecTV Buckeye Cable - Channel 269 English website Link TV Rhode Island Mobile Al Jazeera English’s nightly news Full Channel TV - Channel 168 Al Jazeera English mobile apps are available for bulletin and Al Jazeera English’s the iPhone and iPad, and for Blackberry and Vermont Witness can be seen on Link TV. other smartphone devices. Burlington Telecom - Channel 132 Link TV is channel 9410 on Dish CANADA Satellite Network, and channel 375 Bell TV - Channel 516 Satellite provider Globecast carries on DirecTV. Al Jazeera English in the US. Rogers - Channel 176 Mind TV Vidéotron - Channel 173 Al Jazeera English’s nightly news Shaw - Channel 175 bulletin can be seen on Mind TV, Cogeco - Channel 182 channel 35 in the Philadelphia and South New Jersey region.

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