Doha: Al Jazeera Media Network has assigned the role of acting Managing Director of Al Jazeera English to Giles Trendle. The post was vacated after Al Anstey’s departure to lead Al Jazeera America. Giles will also continue in his current role as AJE’s director of programmes.
Giles joined Al Jazeera in 2004 to work on Al Jazeera Arabic’s flagship investigative documentary show ‘Top Secret’.
He moved across to Al Jazeera English in 2006 where he commissioned and acquired films for the ‘Witness’ documentary strand.
Prior to joining Al Jazeera, Giles was an independent documentary-maker and journalist specialising in the Middle East. He began his career in journalism in 1985 spending many years in Lebanon as a freelance journalist. He reported for, among others, The Economist and The Sunday Times. He covered the Lebanese civil war and the Western hostage saga. The Peninsula
