Sports journalist, Al-Jazeera (Doha, Qatar)

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=833631

As Al Jazeera English completes its first year of setting an alternative news agenda we are expanding and hiring more top-class talent. We want TV and Web people from all backgrounds for our News Centres in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, Washington DC and London, and for our ever-growing global bureau network.

Sports Journalist - Doha

Duties include subbing, copy-tasting and writing. You will also produce special reports and occasionally travel with the broadcast team. Experience of editing and subbing in print or online is essential, as is an excellent standard of written English. This post involves shift work including weekends.

*Please email your CV and two written examples of recent work by 13th Oct. to russellmerryman@aljazeera.net by quoting the relevant job title and location in the subject box.

 

Ymmmmm...that's good copy.

 

I'd seriously dread the calls from angry viewers on this gig.

 

Truly a job where you risk having to eat your words.

 

What's pay like on this one? Does your pay go up each day you survive?

 

Russell Merryman. There's a solid, upstanding, salt-of-the-earth muslim name.

 

You know they give workers American names over there.

Actual conversation I had
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"Hello, Gateway computers, Sandy speaking, how may I help you?"
"May I ask where I just called?"
"Pakistan."

 

When there's a team shakeup, are you allowed to use the phrase "Heads will roll"?

 

Look on the bright side. You'll get to write about a bunch of holes-in-one every day in Baghdad.

 

Not her real name (as stated) and probably faking an American accent. This is a common trait of the these call centers, especially in India.

 

Sen-sational. Rack him.

 

Who's the editor? Bhagdad Bob?