Al Jazeera America
Ousts CEO as Ex-Employees Reveal Scandals
by Breitbart News 6 May 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — The troubled Al
Jazeera America network ousted its chief executive on Wednesday
following a week of management defections and a lawsuit charging an employee
with anti-Semitism.
The little-watched news network is replacing its CEO, Ehab
Al Shihabi, with veteran news executive Al Anstey. Al Shihabi has run Al
Jazeera America since it started two years ago, and Anstey has been the
managing director of Al Jazeera English.
Both networks are offshoots of the Al Jazeera cable news
network, run out of Qatar.
Al Shihabi sent an email to the staff welcoming Anstey and
saying he would remain as chief operating officer.
Al Jazeera’s former senior vice president of newsgathering,
Marcy McGinnis, quit this week and told The New York Times that Al Shihabi
managed with a culture of fear. The network’s head of human resources and its
communications chief resigned last week, and a former employee sued Al Jazeera
America, charging that he was fired when he complained about a former
colleague’s anti-Semitic and sexist behavior.
Al Shihabi had a news conference Monday to say that charges
the network was anti-Semitic and anti-women were absurd. He called the network,
which is available in half the nation’s television homes but is infrequently
watched, “a huge success story.”
Al Jazeera America, or AJAM, announced the management change
in a news release, and a spokeswoman said the chairman of its board of
directors, Mostefa Souag, wasn’t available for comment. In a statement, Souag
said Anstey has “the unique ability to undertake the strategic changes needed
for the success of the channel.”
Anstey, who has worked at CBS News, Reuters and The
Associated Press, said he is “committed to engaging the team and uplifting our
collective ambitions, as a much needed channel for American audiences.”
Attorney Jeffrey Kimmel, representing former AJAM employee
Matthew Luke, argued Wednesday that the ouster of Al Shihabi should be seen as
an admission his client was wrongfully terminated.
Luke charged in his lawsuit that an ex-colleague had
denigrated female employees and said that “whoever supports Israel
should die a fiery death in hell.”
Israel
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Note:
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an
intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William M. Daley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a contributor for the CBS News, and was the chief of
staff for the Barack Obama
administration.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the Climate Reality
Project, the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the Urban Institute (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Haim Saban is a
benefactor for the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, a friend of Shimon
Peres, and a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Shimon Peres is a
friend of Haim Saban, and the
president of Israel.
Joel Z. Hyatt is an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and was a co-founder
& CEO for the Current Media, LLC.
Albert A. Gore Jr.
was a co-founder & chairman for the Current
Media, LLC, the chairman for the Climate
Reality Project, and sued Al Jazeera.
Current TV was a
division of the Current Media, LLC.
Al Jazeera
acquired Current TV.
TCK International,
LLC is the lobby firm for Al Jazeera.
Tom C. Korologos
is the chairman for TCK International,
LLC, and married to Ann McLaughlin
Korologos.
Ann
McLaughlin Korologos is married to Tom
C. Korologos, a director at Harman
International Industries, Inc., was the chair emeritus for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
trustee at the Urban Institute (think
tank).
Sidney Harman was
the chairman for Harman International
Industries, Inc., and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank)
Jane Lakes Harman
is a stockholder for Harman
International Industries, Inc., and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Valerie
B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan
Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Haim Saban is a
benefactor for the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, a friend of Shimon
Peres, and a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Shimon Peres is a
friend of Haim Saban, and the
president of Israel.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ann
McLaughlin Korologos was a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), the chair emeritus for the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a
director at Harman International
Industries, Inc., and married to Tom
C. Korologos.
Tom C. Korologos
is married to Ann McLaughlin Korologos,
and the chairman for TCK International,
LLC.
TCK International,
LLC is the lobby firm for Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera
acquired Current TV.
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