Doha, March 27 (EFE) .- The Qatari television network Al Jazeera announced today that dispense five hundred jobs, most of them at its headquarters in Doha, as part of an “optimization” of the resources.
Al Jazeera has a network with more than 4,000 workers from 70 nationalities and in a note the acting CEO of the chain, Mostefa Souag, justified the dismissals ensuring that are part of “an initiative of labor optimization. “
This will allow the channel to evolve in their business operations to maintain its leadership position and continue their” commitment to the highest quality independent and live in the world journalism, “according to its director .
in its statement, the acting director acknowledged that it was a “difficult” decision, but stressed that expected to have taken “the right way, to ensure competitiveness and long-range chain”.
Al Jazeera was established in Doha in 1996 by the then emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, under the slogan of being the first channel of independent news in the Arab world, dedicated to providing news and debates live .
This decision adds to the announced last January, when the chain said in April it would close its headquarters in the United States, a decision that then justified with argued that the business model is not held “with the challenges that are taking place in the media market in the United States.”
Catar, like the rest of the Gulf countries whose economies depend on oil, was forced to introduce reforms such as the removal of energy subsidies, to compensate for loss of income due to falling oil prices. EFE
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