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#DemandAlJazeera: How Al Jazeera is using social media to cover Egypt—and distribute its content in the US » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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So, hoping to cement an “I want my MTV” moment, Al Jazeera is taking to Twitter to find its way onto TVs in the US. The network is using a promoted trend on Twitter, #DemandAlJazeera, to make the case that it’s time for the Qatar-based broadcast to debut on TVs here in America.

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