Since it purchased Current TV at the beginning of the year, Al Jazeera has been building a large news organization in the US. With close to 1,000 employees, about a dozen bureaus around the country, and several high-profile hires, Al Jazeera America (AJA) is "more than ready" for its US launch on August 20th, says interim CEO Ehab Al Shihabi. Because it picked up Current's distribution, it will reach just shy of 50 million people at launch — but several big cable companies like Time Warner won't be airing the channel.
Shihabi says that the news channel will focus on hard news, telling journalists last week that "there will be less opinion, less yelling and fewer celebrity sightings." The channel, which is privately owned and funded by...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/17/4631246/al-jazeera-promises-in-depth-news-with-new-us-news-channel-launching
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