Al Jazeera plans English start-up
Reuters
Arabic satellite TV network Al Jazeera says it plans to hire more than 300 people globally in a bid to launch an English-language news channel before the end of next year. The network said last month it planned to launch the channel to counteract what it said was the Western networks’ unbalanced reporting.
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