David Shuster To Join Al Jazeera America
By Alex Weprin on July 22, 2013 9:18 AM
Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster will be joining Al Jazeera as an anchor, a network source confirms to TVNewser. Shuster will likely anchor in the evenings, although a timeslot has not been confirmed. Shuster’s hire was first noted by Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post.
Shuster has been a regular on radio in Washington DC, and appeared frequently on Current TV after leaving MSNBC in 2010. MSNBC suspended Shuster in April of 2010 when it learned that he taped a pilot for CNN. The pilot never went anywhere, but MSNBC still felt compelled to lock him out until his contract with the network was completed.
At AJAM, Shuster is joining a bevy of TV news veterans, including former CNN anchors Ali Velshiand Soledad O’Brien and former HLN anchor Richelle Carey.
AJAM still does not have a chief executive or a head of programming, two roles that it should probably fill before it launches in a month’s time.
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copied from TV Newser...........
