Al Jazeera (tv network)

Adam May leaving WJZ for Al Jazeera America

2013-05-20 11:39:00

WJZ reporter-anchor Adam May is leaving the Baltimore station at the end of the month to join Al Jazeera America as a national correspondent. May, who has been at the CBS-owned station for 10 years, will go to work for Al Jazeera in June. But he will...

World watches weapons in Israel, Syria; Americans prefer to watch them on the big screen

2013-05-06 04:33:00

Israel and Syria continue to fight, Robert Downey Jr. continues to� pretend to fight, and in sunny, pastoral northern Pennsylvania, a former judge is still getting international attention a week after his sentencing over what amounts to a human-...

Ali Velshi to join Al Jazeera America after more than a decade at CNN

2013-04-04 15:32:00

Al Jazeera America Thursday announced that veteran business reporter Ali Velshi will join the Qatar-owned channel to develop and host a daily prime-time business show. The announcement comes one day after news that Velshi was leaving CNN where he served...

Why Al Jazeera buying Current is a good thing for media, country

2013-01-04 03:00:00

I don’t care if Al Gore got more money than he ever deserved for his pathetic channel, or Glenn Beck got the short end of the stick in trying to buy it as an escape from his prison of media marginalization. All of that is ideological and...

Of course Al Jazeera has a bias, but it's not what most critics think

2013-01-09 04:02:00

Reading some of the nutty coverage of Al Jazeera's purchase of Current TV from Al Gore, I am not sure whether the problem is ideology or ignorance when it comes to the sorry state of media criticism today. Last week, I explained why I thought Al...

A fire in Brazil, a fake fight in Phoenix and a real one in California

2013-01-28 06:54:00

Dick Van Dyke brought his characteristic charm to the SAG Awards this weekend, and Internet users dutifully searched for all sorts of details on him -- anything to distract us from the icy weather that caused school closings from here to Ann Arbor.�...

Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday

2013-01-04 04:48:00

WEATHER: Sunny, with sub-freezing wind chill and gusts up to 20-25 mph. TRAFFIC: Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues. TOP NEWS Flu season arrives early, hits harder than usual: Area hospitals are coping with a surge of patients with...

What Al Jazeera thinks of Baltimore

2012-08-19 09:12:00

Baltimore-area viewers won't see it in their TV listings, but this week a program will premiere on the Al Jazeera English channel that could do more to shape the world's image of their city than any other media coverage or civic promotion done all year....

Here's the Al Jazeera film on Baltimore that cable TV doesn't want you to see [Video]

2012-08-21 15:06:00

UPDATES with reaction to the film from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's office... Using digitalmedia once again to end run the cable TV industry, Al Jazeera English posted its latest documentary, "Baltimore: Anatomy of an American City," online Tuesday...

It's outrageous that Al Jazeera English is not on cable in most U.S. cities

2012-08-21 05:38:00

Al Jazeera English will premiere a thought-provoking and hard-hitting documentary about Baltimore tonight, but viewers here won't be able to see it on cable TV. That's outrageous, ignorant and maddening. That's the conclusion I came to last week while...

Welcome to an age of interdependence

2012-09-25 11:21:00

The outcome of November's presidential election will affect the entire world. Yet until the attack on our consulate in Libya, issues of foreign policy and globalization were nearly absent from the political discourse. There was talk at both parties'...

GOP exploits extremist violence

2012-09-18 11:15:00

Letter writer Al Eisner betrayed his political bias ("Libya attack a direct result of Obama foreign policy weakness," Sept. 16) when he characterized President's Barack Obama's Middle East foreign policy as "left-wing" and "weak" — the partisan...

Al Jazeera is not interested in the Tennis Channel, an Al Jazeera executive has told The Times.

2013-04-25 16:31:35

Ali Velshi joins Al Jazeera America

2013-04-04 15:48:00

Ali Velshi is leaving CNN for Al Jazeera America.

2013-04-04 15:10:00