The Fourth Al Jazeera Forum

As the political and social landscape of the Middle East continues to become more complex in the context of a changing multi-polar world there is a need for media to better understand the realities on the ground.Al Jazeera’s Fourth Annual Forum will explore the dynamism behind these changes along with their impact on the region and beyond, and examine the ways in which the world of journalism can better reflect and report on these changes.
The 2009 Forum will build on the success of past Al Jazeera Forums to debate, discuss, and extend the discourse on the critical dynamics of the Middle East in the context of the globalized world. We will host an international mix of journalists, analysts, academics, and intellectuals to help bring these issues into focus as well as leading thinkers and strategists to explore and understand the changing face of the region, its place in the global landscape, and how to report it in depth.

AJE Under Financial crisis

The Qatari based channel seems to be under financial crisis amid ending the contracts of number of its journalists.
According to well informed sources in the network, the board of directors called on the english news channel to bring down its expences around 30% and made it clear there is no budget available for new recruits.
Its not known wether these dramatic events will affect the channel's ambitions to lead the market specially after the success it gained around the globe amid the Gaza war earlier in january.