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About us
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Bureau chiefs and senior executives
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| Omar Bec |
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SENIOR EXECUTIVES
Omar Bec: Managing Editor
Omar Bec’s career encompasses 15 years of senior roles in international television news, including with Al Jazeera Channel, BBC World Service and Worldwide Television News (WTN).
Before joining Al Jazeera English, Omar was Al Jazeera Channel’s Bureau Chief Tokyo, Japan having formerly been its Head of Newsgathering and Operations, managing an award-winning team of foreign correspondents.
He has also held the role of Newsgathering Editor with the BBC’s Arab World Service, in charge of all its foreign and domestic reporters. With WTN Omar served as a News Producer on the Arab Section, delivering coverage of major world stories for the international media.
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| Russell Merryman | Russell Merryman: Editor-in-Chief, Web & New Media
Russell Merryman brings to Al Jazeera English experience and expertise in broadcast and new media and spearheads the development of the channel’s web, mobile and broadband services.
A broadcast journalist since 1988, he joined BBC News Online in 2000 to work on their fledgling Interactive TV project and managed the development of many interactive applications, including the BBC's 24/7 Video News Interactive service, which launched in November 2001 and won the Royal Television Society Award for Technical Innovation in 2002.
Russell also worked on web, broadband, mobile and interactive television projects for a wide range of BBC programmes including Question Time, Newsnight, Panorama, the 2001 and 2003 election results specials and the 2004 Olympics.
BUREAU CHIEFS
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| Sue Phillips |
Sue Phillips: Bureau Chief, London
Sue Phillips’ career includes senior roles as London Bureau Chief for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
She also previously worked as the Managing Director of News World International, and Senior Radio Producer and Senior Television Producer at CBC.
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| Amnol Saxena | Anmol Saxena: Bureau Chief, India
Anmol Saxena has more than 18 years of experience in the media industry. Anmol joined Al Jazeera English from APTN.
Anmol also worked with the Indian National Broadcaster to provide extensive coverage of the war in Iraq.
World View the programme which he produced went on to become one of the top rated news-programmess on Doordarshan.
In addition, Anmol has written and produced a series of documentaries for leading Indian news Broadcasters ZEE News and DD.
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| Andrew Simmons |
Andrew Simmons: Bureau Chief, Africa
Andrew Simmons has more than 20 years of experience in high profile television news.
His awards include winner of two Royal Television Society (RTS) awards.Andrew is an experienced war correspondent – he covered Chechnya, the Bosnian conflict and the first Gulf War during which he spent more than one week in captivity in Basra.
He spent nearly 15 years with ITN which included four years as Ireland correspondent and spells running bureaux in the Middle East, Moscow and Europe. He left ITN to join Sky News in 2000 as a senior correspondent for Sky News special reports unit.
Andrew joined the BBC in 2001 as a presenter for Interactive Channels and as a regular presenter on BBC News 24. He was appointed BBC Bureau Chief in West Africa in 2004 based in Dakar, Senegal.
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| Will Stebbins | Will Stebbins: Bureau Chief, Washington DC
Will Stebbins joined the channel from Associated Press Television News (APTN) where he was Regional Editor, overseeing the management of all of APTN's Latin American news.
Will is multi-lingual and brings to a wealth of broadcast experience from his previous roles as Regional Executive, APTN, Miami, Senior Producer, APTN, Havana, and Bureau Chief, Worldwide Television News, Cairo.
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| Olga Stukalova |
Olga Stukalova: Bureau Chief, Moscow
Al Jazeera English's Olga Stukalova has in-depth knowledge and experience of Russian affairs.
Previously a desk producer at the Moscow Bureau of Associated Press Television News, Olga covered major news stories in Russia and the CIS including three Russian presidential elections, the sinking of the submarine 'Kursk', and the 1999 apartment bombings in Moscow.
She travelled to Afghanistan and neighbouring countries following developments in the aftermath of 9/11.
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