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Al Jazeera America Journalists Settle Lawsuit With Ferguson, Missouri Adjacent County For Tear Gassing During 2014 Uprising
St. Charles County in Missouri will pay three Al Jazeera jounalists who were tear-gassed during their coverage of the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, Missouri.
The three were covering the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death in that community when they were caught up in the tear gas deployed by the st. Charles County SWAT…
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Al Jazeera America Shuttering In April
After a rocky and low rated run of two and a half years, Al Jazeera America is closing down on April 30. The "decision by Al Jazeera America's board is driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace,” said the news net’s CEO Al…
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Al Jazeera America Axes CEO Amid Legal & Corporate Woes
Al Jazeera America is being sued for $15 million over accusations of anti-Semitic, anti-American and anti-woman bias and has lost a trio of high-profile executives in the past week, and now it has pink-slipped its top man. After running the struggling Qatar-backed news network since its launch, Ehab Al Shihabi has…
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Al Jazeera America Loses Another Exec Amid Turmoil; More To Leave
Last week it was a $15 million wrongful termination lawsuit claiming a senior executive repeatedly expressed an anti-America, anti-Semitic and anti-woman bias plus the exits of the EVPs for Human Resources and Communications that hit the Qatar-backed news network. Today, another top executive headed for the door at Al…
Al Jazeera America Lawsuit: $15M Anti-Semitic, Anti-U.S., Anti-Female Suit “Absurd”, CEO Says
UPDATE, 8:37 AM: It hasn’t formally responded in the courts yet, but Al Jazeera America has come out swinging today against the multimillion-dollar "anti-female, anti-Semitic and anti-American bias" lawsuit filed last week by an ex-employee. "Al Jazeera America does not tolerate any discriminatory conduct and we take…
Al Gore Sued Back By Al Jazeera America Over “Sham Lawsuit”
A month after the former VP and ex-Current TV CEO Joel Hyatt went after Al Jazeera America for $65 million held in escrow, the Qatar-backed outlet has rippingly responded. Stressing that they had legitimate claims to the funds to handle various distribution schisms, AJAM's redacted September 18 counterclaim calls the…
Al Gore Claims “Financially Disastrous” Al Jazeera Decisions Are Why Cash From Current TV Sale Is Being Withheld
While Al Jazeera insisted that the initial complaint last week from the ex-VP and former Current TV CEO Joel Hyatt be sealed, a now-heavily redacted version sheds light on what exactly the $65 million in escrow that AJ won't hand over to Al Gore and crew from last year’s $500 million sale is being used for: pricey…
UPDATE: Al Gore’s “Celebrity Lawyer” Trying To Grab Headlines With Lawsuit, Says Al Jazeera
UPDATE, 7:15 AM: “The lawsuit and statement simultaneously issued by Al Gore's celebrity trial lawyer were designed to grab headlines with misleading accusations like 'fraud' and 'price discount,'" Al Jazeera said in a statement over the former Veep’s fraud suit against the Qatari-owned news outlet over its purchase…
UPDATE: President Obama Warns Police In Ferguson, MO Not To Bully Or Arrest Journalists Covering Protests There
UPDATE, 10:12 AM: “Here in the United States of America, police should not be bullying or arresting journalists who are just trying to do their job and report to the American people what they see on the ground,” President Obama said this morning. His comments came hours after two print journalists were arrested and…
DirecTV Hits Al Jazeera America With Lawsuit But Won’t (Heavily Redacted) Say Why
I can tell you that DirecTV today filed a breach of contract complaint against Al Jazeera America. I can tell you that the civil case complaint demands a 10-day jury trial and seeks more than $25,000 but also is looking for declaratory relief. Finally, I can tell you that the 17-page filing by the satellite service…
Al Jazeera America To Air Docu On Low-Income Living In U.S. From Producers Of ‘Hoop Dreams’, ‘Life Itself,’ ‘New Americans,’ ‘Trials Of Muhammad Ali’
CNN isn’t the only cable news network going in for documentary series. Al Jazeera America today announced its latest collaboration — with Kartemquin Films on Hard Earned, a six-part documentary series exploring low-income life in America. Hard Earned is being executive produced by Kartemquin's Steve James, Gordon…
Al Jazeera America Slashes Staff But Says It’s All Part Of The Plan
It’s a dreary day at the cable news channel as it files an undisclosed number of employees — I’m hearing at least 60 –into the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan to tell them that they’ve lost their jobs. The sports news unit has been disbanded, and some layoffs are tied to a decision to cut The Stream to two days a week…
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