More bodies exit Al-Jazeera English

By SDH Al-Jazeera English continues to bleed. This time the exits come higher up the ladder. Steve Clark, a former senior executive at ITN and Sky News and a driving force behind the launch of al-Jazeera English, resigned at the end of last week while David Marash, a former CBS Nightline presenter who was the senior anchor in Washington, has also quit. This is all due to what some staffers call a lack of clear direction and sucky contracts. If all this is due to lack of direction, then we should be seeing more boddies defect being that Steve Clark was a major player in the launch of Al-Jazeera English. In an email to staff, Clark paid tribute to his colleagues, saying his resignation had been a difficult decision. "We have redefined international news coverage with our dynamic emphasis on the developing world. Our analysis of events in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East has been an editorial triumph."