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Al Jazeera

Staff members dismantle the signs of the TV station Al-Jazeera in Rabat on November 4, 2010.

Why Some Arab Countries Want to Shutter Al Jazeera

When the network launched in 1996, it radically changed the media landscape of the Arab world. Two decades later, some regimes are still seething.
By Philip Seib
Hulk Hogan may not have knocked out Gawker.

The Biggest Media Stories of 2016, From Fake News to Gawker’s Fall

In 2016 more than at any other time in recent memory, goings-on in the media world were the subject of water cooler conversation.
By John Bonazzo
AJAM

Al Jazeera America Removes Satirical Story About Al Jazeera America

Luckily, nothing can ever really be deleted on the Internet.
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
A detail from Businessweek's new comic about the Fed, by Peter Coy and Dorothy Gambrell.

New Businessweek Comic Uses Open-Source Al Jazeera Code

By Brady Dale
Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America Pays $45M to Get Out of Midtown Lease

By Liam La Guerre
AJAM

Al Jazeera America Staffers Create Portfolio Site Before Outlet Shutters

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Al Jazeera

R.I.P. Al Jazeera America: Tired Cable TV News Joins ‘HuffPost Live’ in Latest Flunk

By Jeff Jarvis
Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America to Shut Down

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Vice's current homepage. (Photo: Screenshot)

Vice Websites Go Dark to Protest Journalist’s Detainment

By John Bonazzo
This full-page ad appeared in the New York Times and sparked much discussion of gay rights in the Middle East, as well as accusations of "pinkwashing."

Al Jazeera and Haaretz Accuse Rabbi Shmuley of “Pinkwashing” Israel

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Editor Alessandra Bastagli Leaves Al Jazeera America for Nation Books

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Media Mix: ‘Print Is Deader’ After Gannett Announces Spinoff

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Annie Lowrey and Ezra Klein

Morning Media Mix: Annie Lowrey Moves to New York Mag

By Madeline Berg
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.)

Morning Media Mix

By Jordyn Taylor
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.)

Morning Media Mix

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Daily News Government shutdown cover

Morning Media Mix

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America Launch Party Emphasizes ‘America’

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
(Illustration by Lauren Payne)

Morning Media Mix

By Peter Sterne

Morning Media Mix

By Peter Sterne
Michael Viqueira (Photo via Twitter).

Al Jazeera America Hires Michael Viqueira to Cover The White House

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Al Jazeera Buys Current TV [Update]

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke and Hunter Walker

David Marash Quits Al Jazeera English

By Felix Gillette

Ex-Marine Matinee Idol on Al-Jazeera

By Rebecca Sinderbrand

Clinked Journos Leak No Polls

By Rebecca Dana
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