BBC journalists covering the Gulf crisis are being equipped with the latest technology for transmitting TV reports over satellite phones. The technology is the result of a partnership between TVZ Ltd - a company with strong links to the television newsgathering business - and Fourth Broadcast Network Ltd. (4BN), specialists …

Big Media and the War When it comes to media choices for information about the war in Iraq, Turkey is luckier than a lot of other countries of equal size and equal level of economic development. At least 21 national daily newspapers circulate about four million copies, and a reported …

When the US and its allies first attacked Iraq in 1991, the Turkish electronic media field was on the brink of a major transformation. The first private television channel, Star, had already begun beaming its signals from Germany on 1 March 1990 thanks to transnational satellite broadcasting. It was said …

Although CNN blazed the path, Arab satellite channels emulated it with pioneering Desert Storm Gulf war coverage and many viewers in Egypt say they are now tuning in to Qatar-based Al Jazeera and tuning out CNN for Iraq war telecasts. Al Jazeera seems to be winning TV credibility and ratings …

Like people everywhere, Palestinians are watching the news of the war on their television sets. However, unlike many others, Palestinians, while watching, analyze every single future implication this war could have for their own national cause. Adding to the intensity with which Palestinians are watching their televisions these days is …

To the soul of Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Baghdad, killed when the channel's Baghdad office was bombed, apparently by Coalition forces. The author notes that the following observations hold good only for the period to April 7, when this article was written, and that Arab media positions may …

If we asked Arab audiences a question about watching TV during the war on Iraq and where they got their war news and how much of their news came from the national terrestrial channels, the answer would most probably be "satellite television" for the first question and "some" for the …

Doha: There are more important TV news broadcasters based in the Dubai/Abu Dhabi sector of my quick Gulf tour (Al Arabiya, Abu Dhabi TV, Dubai Business Channel, MBC News) than in Qatar but the dynamic is all here in that curious triangle of Al Jazeera, the Coalition Central Command headquarters …

The widespread availability of real time news is a recent feature of the British media environment. CNN has been around since the 1980s, and Sky News was launched in 1989, but for years neither had significant reach in a country where cable TV was under-developed and satellite was slow to …

  Chris Gray is picture editor with the BBC NewsNight team. In Kurdistan from the days of the lead up to war, he provided this glimpse of the everyday life of a journalists' community waiting for, and sometimes getting, their story.       March 10 Journey to northern Iraq/Kurdistan. …