Al Jazeera America Fails: Blows $600M, Citing “Economic Landscape in U.S. Media Market”
After spending more than $600 million to
After spending more than $600 million to
Al Jazeera’s English channel newsroom in Doha, Qatar (File photo: Hamid Jalaudin/AP)
Maybe to U.S. journalists, such as Soledad O’Brien, the Arab news organization Al Jazeera is still the industry gold standard, but in the Middle East the network has experienced real damage to its credibility. The past week has been a rough one, including en masse staff resignations, a raid of one of its offices, its reporters kicked out of a news conference by fellow journalists, and the arrest of some of its staffers by Egyptian security forces.
