Sources: The Guardian
The Israeli Ministry of Communications seizes broadcasting equipment from the Associated Press and suspends their live feed of Gaza, accusing them of breaking the new media law by supplying images to Al Jazeera. 2024-05-21
Reuters photojournalists Issam Abdallah killed, Christina Assi critically injured and five journalist of AFP and Al Jazeera injured by two IDF tank shells when documenting an IDF outpost in southern Lebanon.2023-10-13
Mohamed Morsi, former President of Egypt, is sentenced to life imprisonment and another 15 years for his role in allegedly leaking government secrets to Qatar. Six people, including two Al Jazeera employees, are sentenced to death. 2016-06-18
Bloomberg reports that Rupert Murdoch plans to unite various European pay TV entities into a single $14 billion entity. 2014-05-9
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown tells the Leveson Inquiry into press standards that he did not declare war on Rupert Murdoch after the Labour Party lost the support of "The Sun" newspaper in 2009. 2012-06-11
Tony Blair's former Director of Communications, Alastair Campbell, tells the Leveson Inquiry that there was no "express deal" between Blair and News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch in the run-up to the 1997 UK general election. 2012-05-14
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation agrees to sell Sky News in order to be in a position to buy BSkyB without a Competition Commission inquiry. 2011-03-2
NDP headquarters are set on fire in Cairo, with Al Jazeera footage showing the building ablaze. 2011-01-28
Israel's Press Office apologises for what "The Jerusalem Post" dubbed "Bra-Gate" - the security screening of several international journalists forced to remove their underwear and denial of entry to Al Jazeera producer Najwan Simri Diab after she refused to remove her bra. Najwan Simri Diab says she did not wish for an apology, only to be assured that it won't happen again. 2011-01-14
Kuwait closes the offices of Al Jazeera, following coverage of a crackdown at an opposition rally. 2010-12-13