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 …

Schleifer: How is Al Jazeera's coverage different from past years? Al Ali: The big difference is that with each passing day we acquire experience. This year we were able to apply our past experience by undertaking longer term and better planning-where to put our journalists, how to get into difficult, even dangerous, …

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 …

This interview with First Lieutenant Josh Rushing (U.S. Marines), a spokesman and Public Information Officer at Coalition Central Command (Centcom), was conducted by telephone on April 8,2002 and incorporates elements of an earlier interview conducted in person by TBS chief editor Schleifer, who traveled to the Gulf (Doha, Dubai, and …

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 …

Iraq - April 07, 2003 FROM CATHERINE PHILP OUTSIDE DIBAGA, NORTHERN IRAQ MOMENTS after the attack, John Simpson broadcast live by satellite telephone on the BBC news channel, News 24. John Simpson: "Well it's a bit of a disaster . . . I was in a convoy of eight or ten cars …

  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. …

  Maggie Zanger, a member of the Journalism and Mass Communications Department at the American University in Cairo, returned to Kurdistan in January to do research. Quickly enlisted by NBC as a news analyst, she soon found herself fully involved in the business of being a war journalist, albeit on …

MEDIATING THE WAR Satellite television coverage of the war has come under intense scrutiny and has stirred controversy. The following series of articles attempts to capture a range of responses across a number of countries. In this issue more than ever, given the strong emotions and diverse positions generated by …