Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, headquartered in Doha, will broadcast globally in early 2006.

A fresh perspective on world news, Al Jazeera International will offer viewers around the world an objective and independent news channel. It will cover all sides of the story from all parts of the world and will revolutionise viewer choice.

Al Jazeera International is the world’s first English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. From a unique position, broadcasting from within the Arab World, looking outwards, Al Jazeera International will report inclusively, offering all perspectives of a story and providing a fresh approach to news coverage.

This dossier on AlJazeera is probably the most comphrensive document on AlJazeera available in the public domain. It was compiled based on publically available information (such as press releases, newspaper articles and Wikipedia entries) and will be continuously updated.

If you have any information that has not been included please feel free to contribute!

Note: This is not an official AlJazeera document.

One thing can be said about Aljazeera's position in brandchannel.com's Top 5 Brand's Survey is that, amongst executives and academics, it is used as an alternative source for news and information. This is an important aspect for two reasons, firstly, these people have influence over the their organisations, brands and the people they speak with and, secondly, the fact that it was voted for independently by these people speaks volumes about AlJazeera as a product. Unlike the Western Media who have PR and Marketing Budgets to promote themselves amongst the public as fair and unbiased, AlJazeera has focused on its core competence: Providing news and information in the most accurate way possible. This means that AlJazeera has made this top brand position amongst the likes of Apple and Google, who themselves have invested millions to get where they are, based solely on the quality of its product. This is an amazing fact and one that can be leveraged further.

The PR however can be said to come from the Western Media 's general attitude of AlJazeera being biased and terrorist. Well, there is no such thing as bad PR, and this is proven here. Another amazing thing about this is that AlJazeera has had its buildings blown up, it's journalists tortured, it's reporters killed and yet it still survives and not only that, manages to get top of mind ‘positive' awareness amongst the US's academic's and marketing executives.

The price that AlJazeera has paid for pioneering objective broadcast news in the Middle East has been extremely high. AlJazeera has had bureaus closed across the Middle East, it has had its website hacked and its journalists arrested or killed in the line of duty.

This project aims to chronicled attempts by governments, companies and individuals to silence AlJazeera.