Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English language news and current affairs channel, set to broadcast globally in the Spring of 2006, announced that internationally renowned journalist Rageh Omaar has joined the new channels line-up and will host a daily documentary programme from the stations London broadcast centre.
Rageh will present the channels daily documentary strand Witness from Al Jazeera Internationals London broadcast centre. The programme will give voice to witnesses from all over the globe, featuring human stories made by storytellers from all walks of life. Content will be gathered from the channels broadcast centres strategically placed around the world (Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London & Washington DC) drawing on a new breed of video journalists reaching parts of the world often ignored.
The Director of Programming at Al Jazeera International Paul Gibbs said, As the channels daily documentary strand, Witness will be the epitome of traditional storytelling with characters that we care about and age old themes presented by internationally renowned journalist Rageh Omaar. We will be unveiling more of our diverse programme offering as we get closer to launch in late Spring of this year, Gibbs continued.
Its hugely exciting to be joining a channel which promises to revolutionise global news and current affairs said Rageh Omaar Witness will be what its title implies a programme of first-hand account. No academics, no commentators unless they are themselves Witnesses.
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Rageh Omaar was most recently BBC News’ Africa Correspondent based in Johannesburg. His reporting during the Iraq war made him a household name with nearly 90% of the British population tuning in to see his reports from Baghdad on either the weekday BBC news bulletins, or on News 24. Many of his broadcasts were syndicated across the U.S., where the Washington Post labelled him the ‘Scud Stud’.
Rageh will continue to make programmes for other broadcasters.
Witness will include material gathered from freelancers and independent companies all across the globe through a unique commissioning site: www.ajicommissioning.net