Marash Joins Jazeera: “Marriage Made in Heaven”

Nightline veteran and former WCBS anchor Dave Marash has signed on to be the Washington-based news anchor for Al Jazeera International, the network announced this afternoon. The Observer first reported Dec. 5 that Mr. Marash was in talks with the brand-new Doha-based English-language satellite news channel, whose global launch is scheduled for the spring.

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Al That Jaz!

Riz Khan, former host of the CNN talk show Q&A, shocked his friends when he told them that he was taking a job with the fledgling Washington bureau of the Arabic news network, Al Jazeera.

Especially Colin Powell and George H. W. Bush.

“I think they were a bit surprised when they asked what Read More

Iraq Media Guy Rebuilds Qatar At the Garden

“We’re looking at embedding reporters, we’re looking at new and interesting camera angles,” Jim Wilkinson said recently in the quick, confidential drawl reporters got used to at the U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar. But while the Republican operative spent much of the year in desert camouflage as General Tommy Franks’ director of strategic Read More