Ex-NBC Correspondent Joins Al Jazeera America

Michael Viqueira will be White House correspondent

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/5/2013 3:38:29 PM

Former NBC correspondent Michael Viqueira has joined Al Jazeera America as White House correspondent. 

Viqueira had been a producer and chief congressional correspondent for NBC and is no stranger to covering the capital -- and Capitol -- for international news outlets. He is also a former Washington producer and reporter for Japan's NHK.

"This is a great opportunity, both because of Al Jazeera America's commitment to the kind of straight-forward, hard-nosed journalism that all good reporters value, and because it's tremendously exciting to be building something that will fill today's critical need for real, unfiltered and fact-based news," Viqueira said of the new post.

Al Jazeera America is the 24/7 news channel that is replacing Current, which Al Jazeera bought earlier this year. It is scheduled to launch sometime this year.