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Dec 21, 2011

AL JAZEERA News, Dec 21, 2011


Al Jazeera English Among Winners of Broadcast Awards
New York Times (blog)
It is the first-ever duPont win for Al Jazeera English, an international news network that is trying to make inroads in the United States. The award recognized an Al Jazeera report about the sluggish pace of recovery and reconstruction in Haiti six ...
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Syria group urges UN action over 'massacre'
Aljazeera.com
The army said it had completed its military operation in Jabal al-Zawiyah after tens of people were killed in clashes with "armed men".Al Jazeera cannot independently verify reports from Syria because of restrictions on reporting inside the country. ...
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Russia's Siberian tigers 'face extinction'
Al Jazeera
... Tiger is one of the rarest in the world, with only around 500 left in the wild in Russia. But poaching, disease, and habitat loss from intensive logging and development continues to threaten populations. Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker reports.
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Japan: Nuclear plant clean up to take decades
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera reported in September, six months after disaster struck, that some evacuees had received just $13000 in compensation from TEPCO - a pittance in Japan, where the cost of living is among the highest in the world. Some of the most contaminated ...
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China backs stable transition in North Korea
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reporting from Beijing, the Chinese capital, said: "China is concerned that the succession plan in North Korea goes smoothly, there is a strong show of support from the Chinese leadership to support North Korea. ...
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Why Qatari Owners of Paris' Soccer Team Hanker For Aging Englishman Beckham
TIME (blog)
The first is gaining experience and international recognition for al-Jazeera Sports as a quality broadcaster of top-flight soccer in the run-up to Qatar's 2022 WorldCup—when the channel will oversee coverage for the entire globe. ...
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Egyptian women march against military rule
Al Jazeera
On Saturday, a woman was stripped and badly beaten by Egyptian security forces, in an incident that was captured on camera and met with outrage around theworld. Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports from Tahrir Square.
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US troops hunker down for Afghan winter
Al Jazeera
Freezing winter weather in Afghanistan is bringing down the number of attacks by Taliban-allied fighters, but security is still a concern. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smithreports from Paktika province, where a simple shopping trip has become a military...
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North Korea, More Isolated Than Ever
Big Think (blog)
The best the rest of the World can do is remain highly vigilant - and hope for the best. *This article appears in the London Evening StandardMark Seddon is a former UN Correspondent for al Jazeera English TV. His reports from inside North Korea appear ...
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Mosaic News - 12/16/11: Yemenis Demand Saleh's Trial
linktv
Today's headlines in full: Syrian protestors slam Arab League's inaction Future TV, Lebanon Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis reject amnesty for Saleh Al-Alam, Iran 'Buy Egyptian' campaign hopes to boost economy as clashes continue in Cairo Al Jazeera, ...
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Bradley Manning and the miscarriage of justice
Aljazeera.com
The views expressed here are his own. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. President Obama has already made statements acting as if Manning had been proven guilty [ GALLO.
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Iraq's Maliki urges Kurds to hand over VP
Aljazeera.com
It is unlikely they will agree to hand over the vice president, said Al Jazeera'sOmar al-Saleh, reporting from the Iraqi capital Baghdad. "Kurdish officials in the region said that they will never hand the vice president back to Baghdad because as ...
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Saudi prince invests $300 million in Twitter
MSN Money
Alwaleed is in the process of launching a new Arabic news channel that will challenge established players such as Qatar's Al-Jazeera and Saudi-funded Al-Arabiya. The channel, which will be called Alarab, is expected to begin operations next year and ...
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Information's Deadly Price: A Dangerous Year for Journalists
New York Times (blog)
The victims included the internationally acclaimed photojournalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington, who were killed by a mortar round in the western city of Misurata, and Ali Hassan al-Jaber, a cameraman for Al-Jazeera who was shot outside Benghazi ...
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New York Times (blog)
Photos: Year in Review, January-June
North Shore News
The 39-year-old, employed by Al Jazeera, had travelled to Damascus from Doha, Qatar, to report on the civilian uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, but was intercepted immediately by security forces. Parvaz was reportedly held in jail in ...
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Tory MP Wants Parliament to Reopen Abortion Debate
The Mark
Yasheng Huang International Program Professor, Chinese Economy and Business and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Tony Burman Former managing director; current head of strategy for the Americas, Al Jazeera ...
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Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian Revolution
Huffington Post
When filmmaker and producer Jehane Noujaim won the 2007 TED Prize, she made a wish to "bring the world together through film." Her work includes Control Room, a documentary that goes behind the scenes at Al-Jazeera, and Startup.com, a clear-eyed look ...
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The Skeptics
The National Interest Online (blog)
The millions of Iranian households with illegal satellite dishes already have access to Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and Al Manar, not to mention the BBC Persian channel and CNN International. An Iranian family with access to the web through a Virtual ...
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The National Interest Online (blog)
Courage in high places in short supply
Aljazeera.com
News Dissector Danny Schechter made the film Plunder about Wall Street crime. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. Danny Schechter.
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SA earmarked for Grand Prix in 2013
SportsCentral
Ecclestone, 81, told Al Jazeera English: “The US has been slow to get F1 because they want to see a profit before they start.” Then he spoke of a South African race from 2013 and insisted F1 would return to Bahrain next year after the cancellation of ...
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SportsCentral
On Twitter, people want to follow personal versus official accounts of journalists
The Next Web (blog)
Within a minute, @evanchill (Evan Hill), another Al Jazeeraproducer, retweets Adam's original post. Within 10 minutes, it is retweeted by @exiledsurfer (activist) and @ashrafkhalil (journalist). After a few hours, it reaches @octavianasr (journalist), ...
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The Next Web (blog)
New twist in PNG power struggle opens door to solution
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
... struggle has taken a fresh twist with the country's governor-general saying he had made a mistake in reinstaing Sir Michael Somare as prime minister and would instead recognise his rival Peter O'Neill's claim to the position, Al Jazeera reports. ...
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Star India hosts workshop on 'Media and New Technology
afaqs (press release)
Key speakers who addressed the audience at this Symposium include Uday Kumar Varma, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Mark Stephens, Former Legal Advisor for Wikileaks, Osama Abu-Dehays, Head of Legal Affairs, Al Jazeera, ...
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Dave Mathieson
The Mark
Yasheng Huang International Program Professor, Chinese Economy and Business and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Tony Burman Former managing director; current head of strategy for the Americas, Al Jazeera ...
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AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, finance and economy briefs
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
GULF COMMON MARKET BY 2015, SAYS KUWAITI MINISTER: Kuwait's minister of finance and health Mustafa Al-Shimali has said the Gulf Common Market will be established by early 2015, Saudi Gazette has reported. Al-Shimali, who was speaking on the sidelines ...
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The creeping encroachment of police-state tactics
Baltimore Sun
When even Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera looks at the newly passed federal defense bill and asks, "How did we get here," something is seriously wrong. Marta H. Mossburg is a senior fellow at the Maryland Public Policy Institute. Her column appears regularly in ...
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High Tide: From Guilty-Plea Expectations To Hezbollah Denials
Wall Street Journal (blog)
(Wall Street Journal, Times of India, BBC, Al Jazeera, IBN Live, DNA India, PTI) Russia's Vladmir Putin called for a corruption probe of public utilities. More here. (Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires) FIFA's Sepp Blatter will meet with Brazil's president ...
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Remaining US troops exit Iraq
Wikinews
John, a pseudonym for one such Iraqi, said to Al-Jazeera, "It's a fact to these people, we betrayed our country, anyone who worked with the Americans. They think we don't even deserve to be Iraqi." Mark, another such Iraqi, said "All the people around ...
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Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works
Techdirt
Malamud's 146-page report from FedFlix to the Archivist of the United States documents claims that companies such as NBC Universal, al-Jazeera, and Discovery Communications have used ContentID to claim title to FedFlix videos on YouTube. ...
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Al Jazeera English wins first duPont as 14 news orgs awarded with ...
By Jeff Sonderman
With Al Jazeera English's flagship news program Fault Lines, Walker scrutinizedinternational aid organizations, local politics, U.N. peacekeeping and reconstruction plans. The team produced an emotional, accurate and visceral report about ...
Poynter.
Al Jazeera English Among Winners of Broadcast Awards - NYTimes ...
By By BRIAN STELTER
It is the first-ever duPont win for Al Jazeera English, an international news network that is trying to make inroads in the United States. The award recognized an Al Jazeera report about the sluggish pace of recovery and reconstruction in Haiti ...
Media Decoder
'Scores killed' in day of Syria violence | Stock Market News ...
By Editor - World News
Written on December 20, 2011 by Editor - World News. Assad has decreed death... Al Jazeera's Rula Amin, reporting from Beirut, said: “Activists and opposition figures say killings in Idlib area are very large.” “Dozens have been killed but ...
Rocket News
NBC News, '60 Minutes,' Al Jazeera English Win duPont Awards ...
By Chris Ariens
NBC News, '60 Minutes,' Al Jazeera English Win duPont Awards. ... CBS News, NBC News and, for the first time, Al Jazeera English, have just been announced as winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. CBS News “60 Minutes” will be honored for Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan's reportfrom the frontlines of the war in Afghanistan, and NBC News, along with Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, will be honored for breaking news coverage...
TVNewser
Syrians hold strikes amid battles in south - Middle East - Al Jazeera ...
In another development likely to raise international pressure on President Bashar... stormed the nearby town of Busra al-Harir, the Reuters news agency reported.Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh, reporting from near the Jordan-Syria ...
www.aljazeera.com/news/.../12/201112119332270503.html
Al Jazeera (Arabic TV Station) News - World News Report
The Latest Al Jazeera (Arabic TV Station) News from World News Report. ....Civilian Advisory Council Suspends Its Work (Today) 17 Dec 2011 07:46 GMT ...
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Syria, Egypt and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news ...
Al-Jazeera reports a "show of strength" from the government, with thousands of supporters out on the streets of Damascus today. "A huge crowd gathered in ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-egypt-middle-east-unrest-live
Al Jazeera English wins first duPont as 14 news orgs awarded with ...
Al Jazeera English has won its first Alfred I. duPont award for excellence in ... The duPont award recognized excellent reporting by “Fault Lines,” AJE's ... newsprogram Fault Lines, Walker scrutinized international aid organizations, local ...Visually stunning, the film showed the central experiences affecting today'sveterans. ...
www.poynter.org/.../al-jazeera-english-wins-first-dupont-as-14...
Video Game Almost Predicted Kim Jong-Il's Death | Kotaku Australia
Today being December 19, 2011, that's pretty damn close. In the real ... That just shows the sad state of affair “news” reporting is in in Australia. ... Our govt ought to have al-Jazeera or BBC World News broadcasting on free-to-air television. ...
www.kotaku.com.au/.../video-game-almost-predicted-kim-jon...
Al Jazeera English Among Winners of Broadcast Awards - NYTimes ...
It is the first-ever duPont win for Al Jazeera English, an international newsnetwork that ... The award recognized an Al Jazeera report about the sluggish pace of ...
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/.../al-jazeera-english-among-...
Terror suit spurs search at dealership | Tulsa World
CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World ... United States and hopefully we will shut them down," Maltz stated in news reports. ... "The intricate scheme laid out in today'scomplaint reveals the deviously ... Al Jazeera is a legitimate international newssource. ...
www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?subjectid=11...
The World Today - Media review faces criticism 15/12/2011
The World Today is a comprehensive current affairs program which ... Tim McDonald reported this story on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:26:00 ... it in the New York Times or watch on Al Jazeera news about what's happening in Mildura. ...
www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3391496.htm
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ABC World News, Dec 21, 2011

ABC's Work It Unnecessarily Injurious to Transgender Americans
Huffington Post
ABC's own "Stand Together" project, featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, aims to put an end to bullying nationwide. But all the goodwill in the worlddoesn't justify putting images like Work It in the living rooms of millions. ...
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