Al Jazeera America
Defunct pay television news channel
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| March 2016 | America Tonight concluded its broadcast after nearly two and a half years on air, marking the end of the news program at Al Jazeera America. |
| January 5 2016 | Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman filed civil lawsuits against Al Jazeera for defamation related to the sports doping documentary. |
| 2015 | Al Jazeera and producer Jihan Hafiz won a National Association Of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence award in the 'Long Form Feature' category for the story 'Fists Up Fight Back' about young female Black Lives Matter activists in Washington, D.C. |
| December 27 2015 | Al Jazeera English released the documentary 'The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers', investigating alleged performance-enhancing drug use by professional athletes, which named Peyton Manning among others. |
| November 8 2015 | It was reported that Al Jazeera America's general counsel, David W. Harleston, did not have a license to practice law. |
| November 2 2015 | America Tonight was moved to a 9:30pm time slot, coinciding with the HD channel launch on DirecTV. |
| June 11 2015 | Shannon High-Bassalik, AJAM's former senior vice president of programming and documentaries, filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the channel, alleging biased pro-Arab coverage and employee mistreatment. |
| May 5 2015 | Al Jazeera Media Network demoted Ehab Al Shihabi from CEO to Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Al Jazeera America, replacing him with Al Anstey, the former managing director of Al Jazeera English. |
| May 4 2015 | Marcy McGinnis, a senior Al Jazeera America executive and former CBS news anchor, resigned from the company amid internal management dissension. |
| April 28 2015 | Matthew Luke filed a US$15 million lawsuit against Al Jazeera America, alleging unfair dismissal and claiming his boss discriminated against female employees and made anti-Semitic remarks. |
| February 2 2015 | America Tonight was shortened from an hour-long show to 30 minutes and moved from 9pm eastern to 10pm eastern time slot. |
| 2014 | Al Jazeera America and producer Reed Lindsay won a Gracie Award in the 'Outstanding Hard News Feature' category from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for the story 'Fists of Fury'. This was the first award ever for the channel. |
| August 2013 | America Tonight launched as Al Jazeera America's flagship news show, airing at 9:30 p.m. EST, with Joie Chen as the host and focusing on in-depth, investigative reporting. |
| July 1 2013 | Soledad O'Brien was hired as a special correspondent for America Tonight and signed a deal with her production company Starfish Media Group to produce long-form documentaries for Al Jazeera America. |
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