Al-Jazeera English wins top journalism award for coverage of Middle East unrest
May 5th, 2011 - 11:51 am ICT by ANIWashington, May 5 (ANI): Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera’s English service has won a prestigious journalism award from the New York-based Columbia University, for its coverage of unrest in the Middle East.
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism said Al-Jazeera English was honoured with the Columbia Journalism Award, which recognizes an individual or organization for “singular journalism in the public interest.”
The university said the journalism school’s faculty selected the Pan-Arab television channel for the overall depth and quality of its peerless coverage of the ongoing protests in the Middle East.
“Al-Jazeera English has performed a great service in bringing the English-speaking world in-depth coverage of the turmoil in the Middle East,” News.com.au quoted Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, as saying.
“We salute its determination to get to the heart of a complicated story unfolding in countries where news has historically been difficult to cover,” said Lemann.
Al-Jazeera, not carried in most U.S. cable and satellite television markets, is known for being anti-American and has also come under fire from Arab countries since its inception in 1996.
However, Al-Jazeera English has now won praise for its on-the-spot reporting and context about the protests throughout the Middle East. (ANI)
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