Country of origin United States Original network Al Jazeera English | Running time 30 minutes | |
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Created by Al Jazeera English (2009-13, 2016-present)
Al Jazeera America (2013-2016) Presented by Josh Rushing, Sharif Kouddous, and Sebastian Walker Location(s) Shot on Location, Base located in Washington D.C. (2009-present) | ||
Fault Lines is a current affairs documentary series on Al Jazeera English that investigates systematic oppression in the United States and abroad. Produced and broadcast by Al Jazeera English, Fault Lines was Al Jazeera America's flagship program about the Americas and one of Al Jazeera English's main investigative programs.Josh Rushing, Sharif Kouddous, and Sebastian Walker host the series. Fault Lines begins its sixth season in 2014.
Contents
The show's premise is to take viewers behind a particular story and report on it in-depth using in-depth interviews and investigative reporting.
Episodes
Rushing filmed two episodes in Mexico (Mexico: Impunity and Profits and Mexico's Hidden War) and third in Colombia, Colombia's Gold Rush for the season.
Awad's coverage brought her to India where she reported on US pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical research abroad. She also traveled to Puerto Rico, projected to be the world’s slowest growing economy, to analyze the economic policies imposed on its people. Her final piece this season explores the growing gap between the wealthiest 1% of Americans and the rest of society.
Production
Although created by Al Jazeera English from 2013 to 2016 the program was shown in the United States by and been produced mostly by Al Jazeera America with its operation and production base moving from Al Jazeera English's Washington, D.C. Bureau to Al Jazeera America's San Francisco, California west coast hub. With the production shift to and launch of Al Jazeera America the show absorbed people along with the Al Jazeera America show America Tonight and the investigative team from the former Current TV (the channel that Al Jazeera Media Network bought to create AJAM) investigative series Vanguard. After the Closure of Al Jazeera America the show was moved back under the production of Al Jazeera English.
Awards
The show though what it has covered has had the distinction of winning many awards for its investigative journalism and coverage.
In 2011, Fault Lines was awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast and Digital News in recognition of their 201 film Haiti - Six Months On.
Fault Lines won two Peabody Awards in 2013 for the episodes "Haiti in a Time of Cholera" and "Made in Bangladesh".
In 2014 the program won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for "Made in Bangladesh".
On September 30, 2014 Fault Lines won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Investigative Journalism in a News-magazine category for "Haiti in a time of Cholera".