Al Jazeera defies those that demand its closure by issuing demands of its own.
When the UAE blockade on Qatar was enacted, part of the demands issued was the closure of the Al Jazeera news network. We created a counter campaign that reminded the world on the importance of having a free press. Using Al Jazeera’s own correspondents to issue some demands of their own – the campaign got the world talking and reinforced Al Jazeera’s legitimate moral authority.
To get the footage the script was sent to Al Jazeera reporters all over the world, but it had to come back to the agency by Sunday so we can could edit, we were not part their video network. We created a LiquidFiles virtual machine and added it to our guest internet connection with a single file drop link for the reporters in the field. This offered them 500Mbit of upload bandwidth and put the files directly in the office for the editors.