An Oct. 8 article erroneously attributed a ban on al-Jazeera reporters in Iraq to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. The decision was made by the U.S.-installed Iraqi Governing Council, and ...

LONDON — Arab news satcaster Al-Jazeera on Monday confirmed reports that it is to be privatized. Channel spokesman Jihad Ballout said that plans to go public had been in the pipelines for 15 months.

The Arab satellite news channel — known to many Americans as the station that airs statements of Osama bin Laden — will soon launch an English-language network. Al-Jazeera executives are hoping that ...

CANNES — The battle of Baghdad was perilous for all newsies, including controversial Arabic channel Al-Jazeera. But the outfit’s plans to launch an international English-language service may prove ...

Al-Jazeera confirmed Thursday that it has hired David Frost to bring the British broadcast legend to its English-language offshoot, set to debut next spring. A New York-based spokeswoman for the ...

The government of Qatar is pushing forward with plans to privatize al-Jazeera, the popular and controversial Arab television network that has often drawn the ire of U.S. administration officials, a ...

Al-Jazeera is in advanced talks with David Frost to bring the Brit broadcast legend to its fledgling English-language network, set to debut in January. Frost’s Sunday morning show on the BBC, ...

Brit broadcaster David Foster has joined upstart global news net Al-Jazeera Intl. as it seeks carriage on U.S. cable and satellite networks. Al Jazeera Intl. is an English-language service that will ...

DOHA, Qatar — Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite TV station that has drawn the ire of officials in Washington, is studying how to become a private company without subsidies from Qatar’s government, a ...

LONDON — Arab satcaster Al-Jazeera’s Children’s Channel (JCC) is going on the road to play with its young friends and make new ones. The Mideast’s first Arabic-language “edutainment” channel aimed at ...