Today we’re launching a new partnership for the site which will bring news bulletins from Al Jazeeera English to our site.

Al Jazeera English channel’s video news bulletins will be presented from the channel’s broadcast centres in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington. The content is tailored to web users providing short, punchy news round-ups of 2-3 minutes duration and will be refreshed throughout the day. Have a look. It’s an interesting partnership - Al Jazeera English now broadcasts to over 130 million homes worldwide with an self-declared editorial mission to give a ‘voice to the voiceless’, reporting stories that often go unreported from regions across the globe . As the first global English-speaking news channel based in the Middle East, Al Jazeera English’s access to ongoing events inside Gaza has delivered new perspectives to worldwide audiences more familiar with western television news networks.



For us, it’s a great way of delivering a global perspective both to our UK-based users and to our growing audience overseas. Al-Jazeera will enable us to bring a different world-view to our audience. That sort of broad-minded approach to interpreting world opinion will sit perfectly with our readers, I hope. And it meshes well with the coverage we give to the Middle East in particular – to set alongside the writings of the likes of Robert Fisk, Fares Akram and many, many more.

We’ll be playing it on our website video player (see above) and also on our YouTube channel (see below). Have a look and let me know what you think.