"Communication is a social mission. Therefore, respect the public interest, combating all forms of prejudice and discrimination, valuing human beings in its uniqueness and in the struggle for their dignity" (Oath of Professional Journalist)
Is it surprising that an Arab state, monarchical, theocratic perform the indicated operation and simplify and ultra-conservative is responsible for the most experienced global TV facing the public interest. perform the indicated operation and simplify We are talking about Al Jazeera, Qatar's state broadcaster, a small and wealthy Middle Eastern country. And who tells us more about this unusual design of serious journalism and independent journalist is Bia Barbosa, who spent a month in the writing of one of the channels of the broadcaster. Currently she is part of the Collective Intervozes and collaborates with alternative media outlets. To illustrate the confrontation Al Jazeera the dominant logic in the media, Bia reminded that all network content is licensed under creative commons, which needs no title to the information.
I always went with Al Jazeera, all of us journalists in the progressive perform the indicated operation and simplify and have it as an alternative source of information, and had the happiness of my family live in Doha for a year. My father is working on a project perform the indicated operation and simplify for the government perform the indicated operation and simplify of Qatar. When I decided I was going there at the end of year holiday, I thought it was an interesting possibility to try an experiment perform the indicated operation and simplify on Al Jazeera. So I contacted them requesting the opportunity to do an internship.
My goal was not to make a paid job and they found interesting my resume, and they always need people there. They have multiple channels and I was in news channel in English. Are 65 offices in different countries, but the headquarters is in Doha, which is the largest part of the channel structure. The English Channel is like a CNN, BBC one, a news channel 24 hours. Al Jazeera perform the indicated operation and simplify has existed in the country but has become a international television during the Iraq war, and the English Channel was launched in 2006. He is facing the outside, but also goes on public television Qatar in English. Even because Qatar is a country with two thirds of its population of foreigners.
The Channel Inglês, as they call it, has offices in 65 countries and official data speak for journalists in 60 countries on all continents, including South America perform the indicated operation and simplify and Africa. They have a correspondent in Brazil, named Gabriel Elizondo, located in São Paulo but travels throughout Brazil, covers Congress very well. They also have some employees freelancers. Already the news channel in Arabic, also 24 hours, has no counterpart in Brazil. Do not ask me to make an assessment of that channel because I do not speak Arabic (laughs).
I worked as a journalist. The Inglês Channel Al Jazeera perform the indicated operation and simplify has two main departments: what we might call hard news and programs. That is news that will coming 24 hours with a studio host, with news that recur throughout the program. This part is generated by four countries over the 24 hours, according to the time zone: 12 hours are generated headquarters in Doha, Qatar, and 4 hours from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 4 of 4 London and Washington. If they wanted perform the indicated operation and simplify to they could keep a team 24h generating this Doha, but there is also a matter of having offices in other countries and a local generation of these information centers.
The department is another half hour programs, conveyed throughout the day. The schedule is divided between half an hour and a half hour program of live journalism. perform the indicated operation and simplify Even the standard studio perform the indicated operation and simplify is much like those great international channels journalism. I stayed in the programs perform the indicated operation and simplify department, and felt that is where Al Jazeera shows its advantage in coverage, except for the coverage of the Arab countries, because there they have specialty teams and more. Al Jazeera where deepens the themes, plural is more explicit, makes a face in the editorial perform the indicated operation and simplify guidelines that thinks necessary, is in news programs.
I worked for them as basically assist in developing a program of economy on emerging markets. They wanted to talk about Brazil, China and India. And they were starting to produce a pilot of this program that has yet to air. I raised a little information and helps them set up for this savings program.
In the last week I was there, began the occupation of Tahrir Square and protests against Mubarak. They were these half-hour programs going deep in the matter perform the indicated operation and simplify of Egypt, far beyond what you could give the news 24 hours. In these programs they deepened the history, origins and consequences of the protests and interviewing people. Discussion programs, is something that we only have in Brazil on cable television for those who can afford, are very common perform the indicated operation and simplify there. In the schedule for discussion programs on literature
