The Take: Jamal Elshayyal – inside the war for journalism’s future

Director of Al Jazeera Digital News Jamal Elshayyal joins The Take to discuss Al Jazeera’s next era of journalism.

At Web Summit Qatar, The Take's host Malika Bilal speaks with Jamal Elshayyal, Al Jazeera’s new Director of Digital News Content, on forging his own path at the network, February 2026.
At the February 2026 Web Summit Qatar, The Take's host Malika Bilal speaks with Jamal Elshayyal, Al Jazeera’s new director of Digital News Content Global, about forging his own path at the network [Al Jazeera]

At Web Summit Qatar, we hear from Jamal Elshayyal, Al Jazeera’s new director of Digital News Content Global, on forging his own path at the network – and how those lessons will guide Al Jazeera through the age of artificial intelligence.

In this episode: 

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  • Jamal Elshayyal (@jamalelshayyal), Director, Al Jazeera Digital News Content Global

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li with Noor Wazwaz, Tuleen Barakat, Maya Hamadeh, Melanie Marich, Tamara Khandaker, Sarí el-Khalili, and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Alexandra Locke. Special thanks to Kawthar Abu Sadeh.

The Take production team is Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, Spencer Cline, Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Kylene Kiang, Phillip Lanos, Chloe K. Li, Melanie Marich, Maya Hamadeh, Tuleen Barakat, and Noor Wazwaz. Our host is Malika Bilal. 

Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Andrew Greiner is lead of audience engagement.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhemm. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio. 

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