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Subtitle: Al Jazeera English in Asia : essays
By: by Trish Carter ... [et al] ; edited by Michael Kugelman
Contributors: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Asia Program
Publisher: Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781933549446
Subjects: Television broadcasting of news; Al Jazeera English (Television network); Al Jazeera (Television network)
Other titles: Al Jazeera English in Asia; Jazeera English in Asia
Description: "Al Jazeera, a Qatar-based, Arabic-language satellite news channel ... established in 1996 ... Given Al Jazeera's tumultuous history, the 2006 launch of Al Jazeera English ... the station now reaches 113 to 120 million homes worldwide.  One broadcast center is in Doha, Qatar ... Two others are in Washington and London.  The fourth broadcast center is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia."--P. 5-6.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction / Michael Kugelman; title: Al Jazeera and Al Jazeera English: a comparative institutional analysis / Marwan M. Kraidy; title: An overview of contemporary Indonesian and Malaysian media / Drew McDaniel; title: Al Jazeera in Asia: the origins / Trish Carter; title: Working for Al Jazeera: the realities / Veronica Pedrosa; title: New media and the politics of protest: a case study of Al Jazeera English in Malaysia / Shawn Powers and Mohammed el-Nawawy; title: An Indonesian perspective: Al Jazeera English, Indonesian society, and the media environment in Indonesia / Atria Rai-Tene.