Al Jazeera, the Arab-owned international cable and Internet broadcast network, plans to open a news bureau in Detroit, a spokesman for the network's new broadcast channel said Thursday.The new channel will be called Al Jazeera America and Detroit will among 12 cities across the country where the new channel will have bureaus.
"We expect the channel to be up and operating by September," said Stan Collender, a spokesman for Al Jazeera America.
Collender said Metro Detroit's demographics — the region has one of the largest concentrations of Arabs and Muslims outside the Middle East — did not play a role in its choice as an Al Jazeera bureau.
Collender said the city was selected because it is home to the U.S. auto industry.
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