Al Jazeera English - International Bureaux

International Bureaux

In addition to its four main broadcast centres, Al Jazeera English has 21 supporting bureaux around the world which gather and produce news. It also shares resources with its Arabic-language sister channel's 42 bureaux and is planning to add further bureaux, to be announced as they open. After it began broadcasting in Canada in May 2010, the network announced plans to open a Canadian bureau office in June 2010 in Toronto. This is a significant difference from the present trend.

“The mainstream American networks have cut their bureaux to the bone.... They’re basically only in London now. Even CNN has pulled back. I remember in the '80s when I covered these events there would be a truckload of American journalists and crews and editors and now Al Jazeera outnumbers them all.... That's where, in the absence of alternatives, Al Jazeera English can fill a vacuum, simply because we’re going in the opposite direction.”
-Tony Burman, Former Managing Director, AJE (quoted in Adbusters)

Also Al Jazeera presenters can alternate between broadcast centres. Al Jazeera also shares English-speaking correspondents with Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera Balkans, and vice versa.