Richard Gizbert Biography.
Richard Gizbert is a Canadian broadcast journalist. He is the host of the Listening Post on Al Jazeera English. He was previously hired by ABC News but was sacked for declining to go to Iraq to cover the 2003 U.S. invasion. Gizbert later won a case for unfair release against ABC News.
Richard Gizbert Age.
Richard Gizbert was born in the early 1960s. The exact date is not revealed yet. He seems to be in his late 50s
Richard Gizbert Net Worth.
Gizbert has a net worth of $14 Million.
Richard Gizbert Wife.
Richard is married and has children whom he loves. In 2005, Richard chose not to go to Iraq a war zone to be corresponding. He felt he had taken enough risks as a journalist and needed to spend time with his wife and children who were young and growing.
Richard Gizbert Listening Post
Richard Gizbert is the creator and host of Al Jazeera English’s weekly media critique and analysis show. He has been the host of the show since its debut in 2006. The Listening Post is a weekly program that examines and analyzes the world’s media, how they operate and the stories they cover.
Richard Gizbert CJOH-TV
Gizbert operated as a correspondent-producer for CJOH-TV in Ottawa, where he composed in-depth stories for Sunday Edition, the national popular affairs program. Prior to that, Gizbert was CJOH’s parliamentary journalist for five years, held for national political coverage. For his broadcasting of a hostage condition on Parliament Hill, Gizbert earned the National Award for Breaking News Coverage.
From 1983 to 1985, Gizbert was a political editor and correspondent for CFTO-TV in Toronto, covering federal politics and co-presenting special events coverage. Early articles constitute a review for Ottawa-based radio station CKCU on Elvis Costello’s execution at the Heatwave Festival in 1980.
Richard Gizbert ABC News
After being sacked by ABC News in 2004, Gizbert challenged and won a wrongful removal petition against the network, in which a job tribunal granted him $100,000 in compensation. In his legal case, Gizbert debated that his unwillingness to accept responsibilities in Iraq led to his firing. The court agreed, ruling Gizbert’s stand on assignments in Iraq was a “primary” reason for his removal.
Before the case, Gizbert had done comprehensive work in war zones for ABC. Starting in 1993, he reported the former Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Somalia. In 1999, he states, he told ABC that, as a father of young children he felt he could no longer endure duties in war zones. He told the court that he offered to accept a domestic duty in the US if ABC requested him to do so. He said the network chose to keep him in London.
Five years later he was fired by ABC and replaced by a journalist ready to report from war zones. According to the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Gizbert’s legal winning “could have far-reaching consequences for war-zone journalism”. Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists in Britain, said the victory was “hugely significant” for reporters and their families.
Martin Bell, former BBC correspondent and retired member of the UK parliament, affirmed Gizbert’s account at the tribunal. After the judgment he said “Richard has been very brave, beyond war-zone valor, taking on ABC News. He’s taken a stand for young journalists.”
Richard Gizbert Al Jazeera English.
The Canadian journalist joined Al Jazeera English after spending 11 years as a London correspondent for ABC News (U.S.) and has been the host of the media-analysis show The Listening Post following the station’s launch in 2006.
Aaron Barnhart, TV writer for the Kansas City Star, wrote that Listening Post “might be the best media-critique show in English anywhere.”Stewart Purvis, the former editor-in-chief and CEO of Britain’s ITN, said “The Listening Post has delivered,” and that its real value “is the breadth of its monitoring beyond the mainstream”. Gizbert also created and hosted Playlist, a show dedicated to “musical fusion, music from the global melting pot” in 2008.
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