[mjismail]

Excellent coverage from Haiti at the moment on AJE: so far there have been several correspondents in the area- from what I remember
Sebastian Walker, Rob Reynolds, Zeina Khodr, Tony Birtley and Teresa Bo...probably missing one or two there too- so obviously a major presence by AJE...
interesting interview with John O'Shea, the founder of the GOAL...available on the website
No 'anchors' sent though, which seems like a trend other news channels have been following- but the correspondents on the ground are all more than capable and have been doing an excellent job...
Interesting to note that all news channels this time round, at least from my general impression, seem to show fairly graphic images during the first few days of the earthquake- good decisions too- allows the actual scale and obviously awful situation on the ground to be more easily seen...
The decision on the graphics side to put up the 'News Update' orange strip also makes the continuous coverage of Haiti more distinct from the 'rest of the day's news'...
The Blogs section also came alive with live updates on the first day or two after the earthquake...
so overall, as expected of AJE, excellent coverage...

This post has been edited by mjismail: 20 January 2010 - 03:44 AM

[Josh207]

I noticed AJE are using a ticker this afternoon - strange move. Surely the 'flipper' does the same job? I wonder why they've changed it, because of the Haiti story being almost continuous? or just a graphics refresh?

Anyway the main thing is the coverage - and AJE has done well with the Haiti story. Also good to see the republican story from the U.S. being high on the agenda.

[mjismail]

New on-demand player on AJE's website- makes everything a lot easier to find..
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/
good addition

AJE up for the RTS News Channel of the Year award tonight- they definitely deserve to win- especially with the amounts of exclusives they had last year with the war on Gaza etc.. and also for their generally excellent int. coverage!

Also the 'Rageh Omaar Reports' starts tonight... and Iraq elections coming up- should be interesting to see how AJE cover that, not least because of their apparent restrictions in Iraq/Baghdad (?)