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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Al Jazeera

1. April 13, 2012 08:42 AM

   NYT Gives a (Very Reluctant) Kudos to Al Jazeera

   By Ron Howell

   And the award for coverage of the Haitian cholera epidemic goes to . . . No, not The New York Times, nor The Washington Post, nor even the Miami Herald. No it goes to Al Jazeera, the news organization that found the cause of the epidemic and told the world about it.* Al Jazeera, the Arab world’s version of our...

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2. February 22, 2011 03:24 PM

   Assessing Al Jazeera

   What's your general impression of Al Jazeera English?

   By The Editors

   As revolutions ripple through the Middle East, Al Jazeera has kept its cameras rolling. Few American cable networks offer Al Jazeera English, but it has nevertheless received more and more praise here, as so many of us have depended on its online livestream to follow the events unfolding overseas. Journalism.co.uk reports that the AJE website “claims to have seen a...

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3. April 25, 2011 11:24 AM

   CJR Rewind: Prisoner 345

   What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj

   By Rachel Morris

   This article originally ran in CJR's July/August 2007 issue. On December 15, 2001, early in the morning on the last day of Ramadan, a reporter and a cameraman from Al Jazeera arrived at the Pakistani town of Charman on the Afghanistan border, on their way to cover the American military operation. The reporter, Abdelhaq Sadah, was replacing a colleague, but...

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4. May 5, 2011 10:30 AM

   Lawrence Pintak on the Arab Media Revolution: A CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   “Autocratic Arab governments have long controlled news and information with an iron hand, writes Lawrence Pintak in the cover story of CJR’s May/June issue. “No more. They try to do so in 2011, but competing versions of reality seep in—and out—through every electronic pore.” In this podcast, Pintak expands on his cover story, “Breathing Room: Toward a new Arab media”...

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5. September 19, 2011 04:02 PM

   Q&A: New NBC Correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin

   “Part of me wants to speak to the global audience, and a part of me wants to speak to America”

   By Dave Marash

   This spring, just before he turned thirty-two, Ayman Mohyeldin’s contract with Al Jazeera was ending and he was faced with a happy career decision—choosing among offers to stay where he was or go to any of three major American network news organizations. I had worked with him for the first year of Al Jazeera English, when I was an anchor...

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6. February 15, 2012 01:05 PM

   Story on Tiny Country A Giant Failure

   60 Minutes whiffs on recent story about Qatar

   By Justin D. Martin

   A recent 60 Minutes segment on the nation of Qatar was the most imprecise piece of journalism I can remember in the more than 20 years I’ve been watching the show. Bob Simon, who was assigned to the story, couldn’t even pronounce the name of the country correctly. When pronounced ka-taar, the word is close to the Modern Standard Arabic...

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7. January 12, 2012 03:27 PM

   Tell Me a Secret

   Soliciting leaks has its rewards, and challenges

   By Alysia Santo

   When news website 100Reporters launched this past October, it had everything you’d expect from a promising journalistic startup: top journalists, funding, partnerships with established news organizations. But 100Reporters also came equipped with Whistleblower Alley, its own WikiLeaks-style leaking portal. Started by Diana Jean Schemo and Philip Shenon, both former New York Times journalists, 100Reporters covers corruption in the US and...

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8. October 10, 2012 07:50 PM

   The politics of data

   Data visualizations can have agendas

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Data can be political. Numbers, facts, and figures are just as much a source as quotes from politicians, community leaders...

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