Doha – The Al Jazeera Network today announced that it has appointed Tony Burman as the new managing director for the Al Jazeera English channel. Predecessor Nigel Parsons assumes the position of managing director of business acquisition & development. Burman’s appointment comes as the relatively new channel embarks on the next stage of its development with expansion of programming, bureaux, audience reach and investigative journalism. An experienced journalist and broadcast executive, Burman was, until recently, editor in chief and executive director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC News) and has been an award-winning news and documentary producer with field experience in more than 30 countries and several continents including the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Latin America. Wadah Khanfar, director general of the Al Jazeera Network stated, “Al Jazeera welcomes Tony in his new role and we look forward to his contribution in building on Al Jazeera’s success as one of the world’s most influential broadcast news brands. The current change is designed to enrich the core of Al Jazeera’s mission – its journalism of depth, its commitment to providing a diversity of viewpoints, its dedication to giving “a voice to the voiceless” and ensuring that the human story is at the centre of the news agenda.”