This is a sad end to a line of good news services in the US. My ex gf and I used to be regular viewers of Newsworld International. They showed excellent intern

This is a sad end to a line of good news services in the US. My ex gf and I used to be regular viewers of Newsworld International. They showed excellent international news programs and a lot of broadcasts from CBC. We were disappointed when Current took over and watched the switchover as NWI's cast signed off the last time and Current started. Current turned out to be pretty interesting. They were aiming for a younger demographic and were among the first cable networks to really integrate an online presence. It wasn't the same as NWI but had good things going on and we enjoyed watching. When I moved to SF I even worked there for a short period and got to experience the energy of the team at the time. We used to watch Al Jazeera online too. They've always had really good journalism and frequently would have better coverage of American issues than any mainstream news media here. When AJ bought Current, it didn't really make a lot of sense to me as a product. I think AJ wanted to make a move into American cable news, but the department responsible for that wasn't the ones handling their existing online English content. They wanted Current for the cable tv slot, in much the same way Current wanted the slot from NWI. I don't know a lot about the industry, but I think this is something like limited numbers of liquor licenses and taxi medallions in cities. So Al Jazeera shut down the Current office here in SF and opened a news room in DC. They didn't do anything with the online presence Current and AJ already had, and actually made it harder to get the old English content here. Now they're shutting down and so ends a line of good international news in the US.