15 February 2006 - Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, headquartered in Doha, announced today that award winning news anchor Teymoor Nabili has joined the channel.
Winner of "Best News Presenter/Anchor" at the Asian TV Awards in 2005, Teymoor has also received awards from the UK Royal Television Society, for coverage of the Utah Olympic bribery scandal, and from the New York Awards, for reporting on economic development in Malaysia.
Teymoor will be the channel's male news anchor in Kuala Lumpur co-presenting the news with fellow award winning presenter Veronica Pedrosa, formerly of CNN International. Kuala Lumpur is one of Al Jazeera International's four regional broadcast centres strategically placed across the world in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC.
Speaking on Teymoor's appointment from the channel's Doha headquarters, Director of News Steve Clark said, "Teymoor will be one of our key journalists in bringing news to English speaking viewers around the world. He has a wealth of knowledge on Asia, The Gulf and Europe"
"It's fantastic to be joining Al Jazeera International at the beginning and to be involved with such an exciting and ground-breaking project." said Teymoor Nabili.
Teymoor brings 17 years of experience to Al Jazeera International: writing, producing, reporting and anchoring in television, radio and print. He joins Al Jazeera International from CNBC Asia in Singapore, where he has been anchor since 2001. Previous roles include news anchor for BBC Television in London, and anchor for European Business News.
Reporting highlights include covering the September 11th terrorist attack on New York City for Channel 4 News and the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka for CNBC. Interview highlights include the Malaysia Prime Ministers Mahathir Mohammed and Ahmad Abdullah Badawi, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Singapore Prime Ministers Goh Chok Tong and Lee Hsien Loong.
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About Al Jazeera International
Set to launch in the Spring of 2006, 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, 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.
For further information please contact:
UK: Sheila Thompson or Moira Whittle:
+44 207 591 9610
Email: aljazeerainternational@blj.co.uk
Doha: Charlotte Dent or Lana Khachan:
+974 489 0713/6
Email: press.int@aljazeera.net
US: Mike Holtzman or Katie Bergius,
+1 212 486 7070
E-mail: aljazeera_intl@brownlloydjames.com
© Press Release 2006
