About Al Jazeera is one of the world’s leading media corporations, encompassing news, documentary and children’s channels. Al Jazeera Media Network started out in 1996 years ago as the first independent news channel in the Arab world dedicated to covering and uncovering stories in the region. It is now a media network consisting of over twenty channels – Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera English, AJ+, AJ+ Araby, Al Jazeera Balkans, Al Jazeera Mubasher,  Al Jazeera Documentary, Al Jazeera Turk, the Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Center, and the Al Jazeera Center for Studies. The network’s news channels and platforms have an extensive newsgathering reach with over eighty bureaus across all the continents of the world. Al Jazeera’s indepth global approach to journalism, allied with a commitment to giving ‘voice to the voiceless’, has won it numerous awards and plaudits over the years.