Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel set to broadcast globally in early 2006, today announced the appointment of Trish Carter, Sue Phillips and Will Stebbins as bureau chiefs for the channel's Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC news broadcast centres respectively.
Trish Carter's career includes high level positions as Head of Current Affairs, Head of News and Deputy Head of News and Current Affairs at Television New Zealand, Media Centre Manager at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, and Executive Editor and Programme Director at Newstalk ZB.
Sue Phillips is an experienced broadcast professional. Her career includes senior roles as London Bureau Chief for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Managing Director of News World International, and Senior Radio Producer and Senior Television Producer at CBC.
Will Stebbins joins the channel from Associated Press Television News (APTN) where he was Regional Editor, overseeing the management of all of APTN's Latin American news. Stebbins is multi-lingual and brings to the station a wealth of broadcast experience from his previous roles as Regional Executive, APTN, Miami, Senior Producer, APTN, Havana, and Bureau Chief, Worldwide Television News, Cairo.
As bureau chiefs of the channels news broadcast centres, Carter, Phillips and Stebbins will be responsible for over-seeing the production of news and current affairs in their regions for Al Jazeera International: Australasia, Europe & Africa; and North & South Americas respectively.
Headquartered in Doha, Qatar, the channel will broadcast from its four news broadcast centres, strategically placed across the world, 24 hours a day. As the world's first English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East, Al Jazeera International will broadcast from a unique position, from within the Arab World, looking outwards.
In addition, the station has also appointed a Bureau Chief for India, Anmol Saxena, in New Delhi who joins Al Jazeera International from APTN India, as well as Andrew Simmons, Bureau Chief Nairobi.
Speaking on the recent appointments, Nigel Parsons, Managing Director of Al Jazeera International said, "We have hand picked our bureau chiefs, and strategically placed our news broadcast centres across the globe, to ensure that our reporting will bring together a complete picture of world news and address the many perspectives of complex current affairs."
"Our news reporting will uphold the strictest guiding principles of Accuracy, Impartiality and Objectivity, whilst being fearless in its reporting. On air, Al Jazeera International will be innovative and provocative, but above all we will earn viewer trust through the impact of Accuracy, Integrity and Speed," added Director of News, Steve Clark.
With inclusive reporting, Al Jazeera International will build on the heritage of the Arabic language channel, revolutionising viewer choice by offering an alternative to traditional Western news media. Offering all perspectives of a story, the channel will provide a fresh approach to news coverage.
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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 revolutionising 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, is now extending that fresh perspective from regional to global. Al Jazeera International is the only international channel inside the Middle East looking out.
Al Jazeera International's reporting is accurate, impartial and objective.
For further information please contact:
Charlotte Dent
Al Jazeera International Press Office
Email: press.int@aljazeera.net
Tel: +974 489 0716/0713
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