Update on Al Jazeera coverage of Gaza: mapping and incident lists

January 6th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Multimedia, Online Journalism

Further to the Follow the Media comment we picked out this morning, here’s a visual explanation of Al Jazeera’s Gaza coverage. Senior New Media Analyst Riyaad Minty outlines the multimedia coverage in an interview on the English channel here:

Maps and incidents listings have been plotted on a specific ‘War on Gaza’ site, using Microsoft Virtual Earth.

Tags: Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English, Gaza, microsoft virtual earth

2 Responses to “Update on Al Jazeera coverage of Gaza: mapping and incident lists”

A week of innovation from Al Jazeera ends with launch of mobile sites | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Says:

January 16th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
[...] in Gaza have been a chance for Al Jazeera to experiment and show off its multimedia – through projects showcased at Al Jazeera Labs. Follow Al Jazeera’s head of new media, [...]
Going it alone: Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondents live interview FRIDAY 2pm (GMT+1) | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Says:

April 24th, 2009 at 10:00 am
[...] That’s exactly what happened for Al Jazeera journalists Sherine Tadros and Ayman Mohyeldin earlier this year when Al Jazeera English found itself the only major English television broadcaster allowed inside Gaza. [...]

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