Introduction: the Al Jazeera moment -- A strategic contra-flow? Al Jazeera-Qatari relations -- Editorial strategies: the challenges of "reporting back" -- Reversing the news flow? news geography on Al Jazeera English -- A voice of the voiceless: Al Jazeera English's source hierarchies -- Challenging the spin: the Gaza War 2008-9 -- Suffering up-close: Al Jazeera English's dramatic visualizations -- Beyond the Arab Spring: the structural contradictions of Al Jazeera.