Its slogan is "Reality as it is" and its editorial policy emphasizes that Palestine and resistance movements wherever they are found are its point of reference. In addition, it presents itself as a "free and independent media project" with 500 staff and reporters in Arab and Western capitals.
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The channel argues that it provides journalism, which is "committed to nationalist, pan-Arab and humanitarian issues within the template of professional journalistic objectivity". The name of the channel, Al Mayadeen, means "the squares" in English, indicating its objective "to provide coverage for the Arab popular actions on the squares of change in the context of the Arab spring revolutions".
Omar Abdel Qader, a Syrian cameraman working for Al Mayadeen, was killed by a sniper during clashes in Deir Ezzor on 8 March 2014. The correspondent of the channel in Damascus was withdrawn in April 2014. In addition, there are reporters of the channel in Amman, Tripoli, Rabat, Khartoum, Mauritania and Comoros. Their task is reported to provide the channel with a daily news section in the news broadcast entitled "A Window into Palestine". The channel has a network of reporters in Palestine (specifically, in Gaza and Ramallah) and also, in Jerusalem. He continued to present for the station in 20. He was paid £3,000 per 90-minute programme by the channel (£18,000 for the first four months of 2014, £96,000 between April 2013 and September 2014), for hosting two programmes a month from Beirut. George Galloway, a British MP, was a presenter for the channel. Like Jiddo, most of the channel's staff are the former Al Jazeera correspondents and editors. Additionally, two Syrian journalists, Ramia Ibrahim and Futoun Abbasi, and two Palestinian journalists Kamal Khalaf and Ahmad Sobh as well as Yemeni Mona Safwan are also among its staff. The staff of the channel include Lebanese journalists such as Sami Kulaib, Ali Hashem, the former Al Jazeera war correspondent, who resigned from the Qatari channel for stated that it refused to broadcast footage of militants on the Lebanese Syrian borders in the early days of the Syrian uprising, Zahi Wehbe, Lina Zahreddine, Lana Mudawwar, Muhammad Alloush, Ahmad Abu Ali and Dina Zarkat.
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Nayef Krayem, the owner of the Lebanon-based Al Ittihad TV and former director of the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV, was designated as the general manager of the channel, but he resigned one month before its launch. Jiddo seemingly accused Al Jazeera of deviating from "professional broadcasting standards", emphasizing that Al Mayadeen would remain objective and unbiased. He resigned from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera in 2011, criticizing its reporting of the Syrian civil war. He is the former head of Al Jazeera's Iran and Beirut offices and a former talk show host in the channel. Ghassan bin Jiddo is the head of the board of directors and program director of the channel. Besides the headquarters in Beirut, Al Mayadeen has a news network and three regional offices, one in Tunisia, another in Cairo with three reporters and a big studio, and a third in Tehran. The channel is part of Al Mayadeen satellite media network, including a production company, a radio station, a website, an advertising company and other media-related projects. Al Mayadeen is viewed as pro- Hezbollah and pro- Syrian government. At its founding in 2012, many of Al Mayadeen's senior staff were former correspondents and editors of Al Jazeera. In the pan-Arab TV news market, it competes against Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, and also against Sky News Arabia and BBC Arabic Television. It has news reporters in most Arab countries. Al Mayadeen ( Arabic: الميادين The Plazas) is a pan-Arabist satellite television channel launched on 11 June 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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