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Setting the scene
In news bulletins, the background matters. We meet the Vienna-based designers whose television studios are the stars of the show.
War of words
Since the 1970s, London has been home to the Arab media’s dissenting voices. But amid a Saudi and Qatar squabble, the press now crackles with opinions, anger and propaganda.
Outside the box
Israel has long avoided wading into the international news environment, wary of its own global perception. Until, that is, the recent launch of i24 TV channel.
Media
Previously shunned by American TV companies, Al Jazeera is finally making its way in the US, plus CNN's new global take on the news and Alain de Botton at Heathrow.
Media
South America's love of heavy metal, Brazil's Casa Triângulo art gallery and Al Jazeera launches in the Balkans.
Bridging the gulf
Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Arabic news network has a rocky relationship with the US. Abderrahim Foukara, the station’s Washington bureau chief and managing editor, is the face of Al-Jazeera Arabic in the US.
Presenting the nation
A boom in state-funded English news channels aims to transmit a country’s brand alongside the news. We report on these new broadcast empires and ask if it's propaganda disguised as programming.
African stations
Salim Amin is determined to launch A24, the first pan-African news channel. He follows in the footsteps of his father, the great news photographer Mo Amin, to report on Africa's successes and failures.
Studio twenty-four
Al Jazeera English is the first 24-hour English-language news channel from the Middle East. Based in Doha with global hubs, it launched in 2006 and now reaches an audience of 80 million.
