Saturday January 09, 2010
Broadcaster of the Year
Deborah Campbel
Adbusters
Documenting an ever-larger swath of the planet.
It was an audacious plan that seemed doomed to fail: In late 2006 Al Jazeera, the upstart Arabic news network twice bombed by the US military, launched an English-language channel in a bold play at taking on the biggest names in international news and beating them at their own game.
Yet three years on, through a combination of old-school field reporting from the world’s most dangerous places and 70 bureaus staffed by scrappy (and typically young) reporters from a United Nations of countries, Al Jazeera English (AJE) has emerged as the dominant channel covering the developing world at a time when Western media are reeling from the loss of their markets – and their sense of mission
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