| 01 May 2006 |
|
Al Jazeera International Reveals Weekend Presenters for their Kuala Lumpur
- Text size
Divya Gopalan & Hamish MacDonald join the team
Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, headquartered in Doha, announced today that Divya Gopalan and Hamish MacDonald have joined the channel's team of on-screen talent.
Divya and Hamish will be the channel's weekend news anchors for Al Jazeera International's Kuala Lumpur broadcast centre, one of four regional broadcast centres strategically placed around the world in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC. They join the award winning weekday news anchors Veronica Pedrosa and Teymoor Nabili, formerly of CNN International and CNBC Asia respectively.
Divya brings the channel over 10 year's experience in international journalism including roles with BBC News, CNN and American networks NBC and CNBC. Hamish meanwhile joins Al Jazeera International from the UK's Channel 4 News where he built a career as a news producer and reporter covering a range of international stories.
Nigel Parsons, Managing Director of Al Jazeera International said, "I am pleased to confirm our weekend presenters who bring a dynamic approach to news reporting in keeping with the channel's aim of bringing a fresh perspective on world news while maintaining the highest journalistic standards."
"It's an incredible opportunity to be part of Al Jazeera International. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping shape what I believe will be this century's defining news station," said Divya Gopalan.
"I am hugely excited to be joining Al Jazeera International. This truly is a dream job and I am honoured to be part of an on-air team which includes the likes of Sir David Frost, Veronica Pedrosa and Riz Khan," said Hamish MacDonald.
"Working on the Asia pacific patch for Al Jazeera International is an enormous opportunity for me and I am looking forward to the challenge of producing distinctive journalism which is meaningful to people living both inside and outside of this region," he continued.
At the BBC Divya worked on daily news and current affairs programmes such as Hard Talk. Her portfolio included major news stories such as the Iraq war, the Asian Tsunami, the Bali and London bombings. She also covered the 1997 Hong Kong handover for NBC and at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival interviewed Palm D'or winner for best actress Maggie Cheung and best director nominee Wong Kar Wai. Divya was the first ethnic Indian newsreader on Hong Kong television.
Starting her on-air career as a sports reporter, Divya interviewed some of the biggest names in the sporting world like tennis stars Steffi Graf, the Williams sisters, Anna Kournikova, F1 star Jensen Button, and International soccer players including Gianfranco Zola and Andy Cole.
Divya has a truly global background, she is of Indian origin and was born in Hong Kong. She was also brought up in the Philippines, educated in North America and spent five years living and working in London and is fluent in four languages.
He began his TV career with WIN television in Canberra as a politics reporter and presenter. From there he moved to the UK and freelanced for a short period, before joining the Channel 4 news team as a producer.
Hamish trained in journalism at Charles University in Australia and began his career as a Talk Radio presenter and newsreader on Radio 2BS Gold. He is the first Australian news anchor to join the Al Jazeera International news line-up of on-screen talent.
-Ends-
About Al Jazeera International
Al Jazeera International is the world's first English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Broadcasting from within the Middle East, looking outwards, Al Jazeera International will report inclusively, offering all perspectives of a story, providing a fresh approach to news coverage and revolutionizing viewer choice across the globe.
Al Jazeera International is building on the ground breaking heritage of its sister Arab language channel - Al Jazeera, which was responsible for changing the face of news within the Middle East, extending that fresh perspective from regional to global. Al Jazeera International is the only international channel inside the Middle East looking out.
With broadcasting centres strategically placed across the world in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London, and Washington D.C., Al Jazeera International is perfectly positioned to bring the world a fresh 360 degree perspective on world news.
Al Jazeera International's reporting is accurate, impartial and objective.
Contact details:
Doha
Charlotte Dent or Lana Khachan
Tel: +974 489 0713/6
Email: press.int@aljazeera.net
US
Rana Jazayerli
Tel: +1 202-372-6347
Email: rana.jazayerli@aljazeera.net
Katie Bergius: +212 486 7070
Email : aljazeera_intl@brownlloydjames.com
UK
Sheila Thompson or Deborah Coleman
Tel: +44 207 591 9610
Email: aljazeerainternational@blj.co.uk
© Press Release 2006
Zawya is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and subscribers. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by those third parties, including information providers, subscribers or other users of the Service, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of the Company. The Company neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Service by anyone other than authorized Service employee spokespersons while acting in their official capacities. The Company is not responsible for any infringement of intellectual property rights or breach of any applicable law or regulation, including regulation in relation to financial services or the distribution of financial products, defamation, data protection, telecommunications (including regulations relating to excessive use, spamming or other abusive activities) or obscene, offensive or illegal content). Under no circumstances will the Company be liable for any loss or damage caused by a member's reliance on information obtained through the Service. It is the responsibility of member to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through the Service. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice or other content.
Read the full Member Agreement
http://www.zawya.com/legal/NewsLetter.cfm?name=disclaimer
Post a Comment
1.1 Contain any material which is libelous or defamatory of any person, is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory or causes damage to the reputation of any person or organisation.
1.2 Promote sexually explicit material, violence, discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age or any illegal activity.
1.3 Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
1.4 Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
1.5 Be used to impersonate any person, to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person, or be likely to deceive any person.
1.6 Give the impression that they represent Zawya.
1.7 Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.