Fault Lines (TV program)

Fault Lines is an American current affairs and documentary television program broadcast on Al Jazeera English. Premiering in November 2009, the program is known for investigative storytelling across the United States and the Americas, examining the United States and its role in the world.

Fault Lines
Title card
Created by	Al Jazeera English (2009-13, 2016-present) Al Jazeera America (2013-2016)
Country of origin	United States
Production
Production locations	Shot on Location, Base located in Washington D.C. (2009-present)
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	Al Jazeera English
Release	November 2009 (2009-11) – present

Team

As of 2018^[update], the program's correspondents are Josh Rushing, Sharif Kouddous, Natasha del Toro, and Femi Oke. Past correspondents include Sebastian Walker, Anjali Kamat, Zeina Awad, Avi Lewis, Teresa Bo, Wab Kinew, and Nagieb Khaja.

Episodes

• Obama's Policy on Torture (2009)
• Tale of Two Bankruptcies (2009)
• Collapsing Auto Industry in Detroit (2009)
• Town Hall Debate on Torture (2009)
• California in Crisis (2009)
• Evangelism in the Military (2009)
• Newt Gingrich: Former Speaker of House of Representatives (2009)
• US Admiral Michael Mullen (2009)
• Health Care Reform (2009)
• Obama's Strategy in Afghanistan (2009)
• Harry Belafonte: On Obama and politics of race (2009)
• Mental Illness in America's Prisons (2009)
• The Best of Fault Lines 2009 (2009)
• Honduras: 100 Days of Resistance (2009)
• US Ambassador to Iraq: Christopher Hill (2009)
• Afghanistan & the United States: The Deeper Debate (2009)
• Race and Recession Town Hall (2009)
• US Colombia Base Agreement (2009)
• Rio: Olympic City (2010)
• Obama: Year One (2010)
• Haiti: The Politics of Rebuilding (2010)
• On the brink: Iraq, Kurdistan and the Battle for Kirkuk (2010)
• Cornel West (2010)
• America's Job Crisis, Working through the US job crisis (2010)
• Cyber War (2010)
• Arundhati Roy (2010)
• The Other Debt Crisis: Climate Debt in Bolivia (2010)
• Elderly in Prison (2010)
• In Deep Water - A Way of Life in Peril (2010)
• Danny Glover (2010)
• Haiti: Six Months On (2010)
• General Wesley Clark (2010)
• Illegal America: Arizona's Immigration Fight (2010)
• Politics of Death Row (2010)
• The High and the Mighty (2010)
• Tea Party, Big Money, Twisted maps (2010)
• US Midterm Elections: A Town Hall Debate (2010)
• Fast food, Fat profits: Obesity in America (2010)
• The Other Special Relationship (2010)
• Mexico: Impunity and Profits (2011)
• Mexico's Hidden War (2011)
• Puerto Rico: The Fiscal Experiment (2011)
• Colombia's Gold War (2011)
• Outsourced: Clinical Trials Overseas (2011)
• The US and the New Middle East: Libya (2011)
• The US and the New Middle East: The Gulf (2011)
• The Top 1% (2011)
• Horn of Africa Crisis: Somalia's Famine (2011)
• Horn of Africa Crisis: Drought Zone (2011)
• Politics, Religion, and the Tea Party (2011)
• The Decline of Labor Unions in the US (2011)
• Robot Wars (2011)
• Chile Rising (2012)
• Occupy Wall Street: History of an Occupation (2012)
• Occupy Wall Street: Surviving the Winter (2012)
• Disenfranchised in America (2012)
• Punishment and Profits: Immigration Detention (2012)
• Iraq: After the Americans (2012)
• Controlling the Web (2012)
• The US and Honduras (2012)
• Baltimore: Anatomy of an American City (2012)
• The Abortion War (2012)
• For Sale - The American Dream (2012)
• Conventions 2012: The Price of the Party (2012)
• Fracking in America (2012)
• Battle for the Arctic (2012)
• Elsipogtog: The Fire Over Water (2013)
• Collect it All: America's Surveillance State (2013)
• Chasing Fire (2013)
• Egypt and the U.S. (2013)
• Stolen Wages (2013)
• America's Infant Mortality Crisis (2013)
• Cross Border Killings (2013)
• Life After Guantanamo (2013)
• Haiti in a Time of Cholera (2013)
• Made in Bangladesh (2013)
• America's Hidden Harvest (2013)
• Women Behind Bars (2013)
• Elders Incorporated (2013)
• Ferguson: Race and Justice in the U.S. (2014)
• Wall Street Landlords (2014)
• The Disappeared (2014)
• Opioid Wars (2014)
• Iraq divided: The fight against ISIL (2014)
• No Refuge: Children at the Border (2014)
• Ferguson: City Under Siege (2014)
• The Coverage Gap (2014)
• State of Play: Football Players and the NCAA (2014)
• Wisconsin's Mining Standoff (2014)
• Chasing Bail (2014)
• Water for Coal (2014)
• Mexico's Vigilante State (2014)
• Access Restricted: Abortion in Texas (2014)
• Space Inc. (2014)
• This is Taliban Country (2014)
• On the Front Lines With the Taliban (2014)
• Death in Plain Sight (2014)
• America's War Workers (2014)
• Deadly Force: Arming America's Police (2014)
• Libya: State of Insecurity (2014)
• Colombia: Deadly Fight for Land (2014)
• The Deported: America's Immigration Battle (2014)
• Alaska: When the Water Took the Land (2015)
• Earthquake State (2015)
• One Day in Charkh (2015)
• Conflicted: The Fight Over Congo's Minerals (2015)
• The Puerto Rico Gamble (2015)
• Lost in the System (2015)
• Take as Prescribed: Drug Addiction in the U.S. (2015)
• The Colorado River: a lifeline running dry (2015)
• Under the Microscope: The FBI Hair Cases (2015)
• Forgotten Youth: Inside America's Prisons (2015)
• Invisible Hands (2015)
• Baltimore Rising (2015)
• The Death of Aging (2015)
• South Sudan: Country of Dreams (2015)
• Shadow City (2015)
• Mexico's Disappeared (2015)
• The Disappearing Delta (2015)
• Hidden State: Inside North Korea (2015)
• Death on the Bakken Shale (2015)
• Standing Rock & The Battle Beyond (2016)
• The Anacortes Disaster (2016)
• The Contract: Chicago's Police Union (2016)
• Afghan Translators: Out of Hiding (2016)
• Crypto Wars: Behind the Encryption Debate (2016)
• The Lives of Black Women (2016)
• The Taser Cases (2016)
• Honduras: Blood and the Water (2016)
• The Poison In Our Walls (2016)
• The Trump Takeover (2016)
• The Rise of Trump (2016)
• Albuquerque Police: A History of Violence (2016)
• Afghan Translators: Out of Hiding (2016)
• Dark Prison: The Legacy of the CIA Torture Programme (2016)
• Seafood Slaves (2016)
• The Final Call: Why Firefighters Commit Suicide (2016)
• Survival Mode: Growing Up With Violence (2016)
• Life of the Party (2017)
• The Rollback: Trump's Toxic War (2017)
• Confidential: Surveilling Black Lives (2017)
• Houston After Harvey (2017)
• Hate in Trump's America (2017)
• Heroin's Children (2017)
• Undocumented in Trump's America (2017)
• State of Denial (2017)
• The Trump Show (2017)
• The Prison Factory (2017)
• Guatemala's Disappeared (2017)
• Haiti by Force: UN Sex Abuse (2017)
• The Ban (2017)
• American Sheriff (2018)
• Puerto Rico: Shelter After the Storm (2018)
• Between War and the Ban: An American-Yemeni Story (2018)
• Fire and Fury: Trump's North Korea Crisis (2018)
• Trump's War on Gangs (2018)
• This is Antifa: Behind the mask of the US anti-fascist movement (2018)
• "No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border" (2018)
• "The Gang Within: A Baltimore Police Scandal" (2018)
• "Adoption Inc: The Baby Business" (2018)
• "Donald Trump: All the President's Profits" (2018)
• "Church of Trump" (2018)
• "Recovering from Rehab: Work-based therapy in the US" (2019)
• "The Aftermath: Mass Shootings in the US" (2019)
• "The Search: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" (2019)
• "Targeted by a Text" (2019)
• "The Viral Threat: Measles and Misinformation" (2019)
• "System Failure: The Boeing Crashes" (2019)
• "In Bad Faith: Child Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church" (2019)
• "The Cost of Living: Why US Prescription Drug Prices Are so High" (2019)
• "Sick Inside: Death and Neglect in US Jails" (2019)
• "The Abortion Bans" (2019)
• "Licence to Hate: White Supremacy in the US" (2019)
• "Amazon Burning: Death and Destruction in Brazil's Rainforest" (2019)
• "The Impossible Choice: America's Paid Leave Crisis" (2020)
• "America's Divided Democrats" (2020)
• "Houston's Cancer Cluster" (2020)
• "Afghanistan: Civilian Loss in the US Air War" (2020)
• "Conspiracy to Massacre: Anti-Semitism in America" (2020)
• "America's Pandemic Workers" (2020)
• "Moment of Reckoning: Racism and Police in America" (2020)
• "Virus on the Poultry Line" (2020)
• "Pandemic in Prison: The San Quentin Outbreak" (2020)
• "When COVID Hit: America's Nursing Home Nightmare" (2020)
• "The End of Presidency" Trump's Loss in a Divided America" (2020)
• "The Great Divide: COVID-19 and Race in Chicago" (2020)
• "Capitol Attack: Where will the GOP go after Trump?" (2021)
• "Shelter in Place: LA's fight for housing in a pandemic" (2021)
• "No Consent: Did a doctor abuse immigrant women?" (2021)
• "Failure to Protect: How domestic violence separates families" (2021)
• "The Texas Blackout" (2021)
• "The Jim Crow Convictions" (2021)
• "Unrelenquished: When America's Gun Laws Fail Abuse Victims" (2021)
• "Exit Honduras: A climate in crisis" (2021)
• "When the Water Stopped" (2021)
• "Buried Truths: America's Indigenous Boarding Schools" (2021)
• "A Toxic Feed: Social Media and Teen Mental Health" (2022)
• "Shadow System: LA's Secretive Sheriff 'gangs'" (2022)
• "51 Years Behind Bars" (2022)
• "The End of Roe: Living Without Abortion Rights" (2022)
• "Impunity at the Border: Inside US Border Patrol's 'cover-up' Unit" (2022)
• "Silenced: The Killing of Journalists in Mexico" (2022)
• "Bloodsport: How the NFL Failed its Black Players" (2022)
• "No Country for Haitians: Deported From the US" (2022)
• "The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh" (2022)
• "The Imprisonment of Julian Assange" (2023)
• "El Salvador's Prison State" (2023)
• "ThePrice of Perfection: The Dangers of Brazilian Butt Lifts" (2023)
• "Derailed: Investigating the US Railroad Industry" (2023)
• "The Confession: A Colombian Colonel Faces His Victims" (2023)
• "The Box: 27 Years in Solitary Confinement" (2023)

Awards

The crew of "Made in Bangladesh" at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards

Year	Title	Awarding Body	Award	Recognition	Ref
2011	Haiti - Six Months On	Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism	Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award	Excellence in Broadcast and Digital News	[1][2]
2014	Haiti in a time of Cholera	National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences	News & Documentary Emmy Award	Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine	[3]
		Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication	Peabody Awards		[4]
	Made in Bangladesh				[5]
		Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights	Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award	International TV	[6]
		Press Club of Atlantic City	National Headliner Awards, first place	Instigative report	[7]
	Deadly Force
	Water for Coal			Environmental
	America's Infant Mortality Crisis			Health/science reporting, first place	[7]
2015	Ferguson: City Under Siege	National Association of Black Journalists		Television: Documentary, winner
		ATAS, NATAS, and IATAS	Emmy Award	Coverage of Breaking news in News Magazine, nominee
	American War Workers			Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine, nominee
		Overseas Press Club of America	Joe & Laurie Dine Award	Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
	Mexico's Vigilante State		Robert Spiers Benjamin Award	Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
	Ferguson: Race and Justice in the US	Radio Television Digital News Association	Kaleidoscope Award
	Opioid Wars	National Institute for Health Care Management	Television & Radio Journalism Award, tied first place
2016	Baltimore Rising	National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications	Vision Award, Documentary
		ATAS, NATAS, IATAS	Emmy Award	Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine, nominee
	Forgotten Youth: Inside America's Prisons			Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine, nominee
				Outstanding Research, nominee
	Conflicted: The Fight for Congo's Minerals			Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine, nominee
	The Puerto Rico Gamble			Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine, nominee
	Death of Aging	New York International Film and TV Festival	Gold World Medal, Science & Technology
2017	Standing Rock and the Battle Beyond	ATAS, NATAS, IATAS	Emmy Award	Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report, nominee
	The Anacortes Disaster			Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report, nominee
		Society of Environmental Journalists	Society of Environmental Journalists Award	Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, first place	[8]
	Left Behind	New York International Film and TV Festival	Gold World Award
	The Dark Prison
2018	Haiti By Force	CINE	Golden Eagle Award	Short documentary	[9]
	The Ban	39th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards	Emmy Award	Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine	[10]
2019	No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border.	Overseas Press Club of America	Edward R. Murrow award	Best TV, video, or documentary interpretation of international affairs	[11]
	Adoption Inc.	40th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards	Emmy Award	Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine	[12]
2022	When the Water Stopped	Society of Environmental Journalists	SEJ Award	Outstanding Feature Story, Large Category. First place.	[13]
	Unrelinquished: When Abusers Keep Their Guns	Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights	Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award	Domestic Television Award	[14]
2023	The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh	Long Island University	George Polk Award	Foreign Television Reporting	[15]
	No Country for Haitians	Overseas Press Club of America	The Edward R. Murrow Award	Best TV, video, or documentary interpretation of international affairs	[16]

See also

• The 90's (1989-1992)
• Vanguard (2008-2013)

References

1. "412 Past Dupont Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
2. "Al Jazeera English Wins First Dupont as 14 News Orgs Awarded with Broadcast Digital Honors". Archived from the original on 2012-12-26. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
3. "35th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards" (PDF). National Academy of Television, Arts, and Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
4. 73rd Annual Peabody Awards: Fault Lines, "Haiti in a Time of Cholera", May 2014.
5. 73rd Annual Peabody Awards: Fault Lines, "Made in Bangladesh", May 2014.
6. "Announcing the 2014 Robert F Kennedy Book A Journalism Award Honorees". Archived from the original on 2014-07-22. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
7. "81st National Headliner Awards winners" (PDF). Headliner Awards. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
8. "Winners: SEJ 16th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment". 30 June 2017.
9. "Al Jazeera English wins CINE Gold Eagle Award". 14 May 2018.
10. "Al Jazeera English Programme 'Fault Lines' Wins EMMY Award". 2 October 2018.
11. "Al Jazeera English's Fault Lines Wins Oversees Press Club Award". 21 March 2019.
12. "Al Jazeera English's 'Fault Lines' programme 'Adoption Inc' wins a prestigious Emmy award". 25 September 2019.
13. "SEJ 21st Annual Awards Winners". 27 June 2022.
14. "Al Jazeera English's Fault Lines Wins Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award". 26 May 2022.
15. "2022 Polk Awards Winners".
16. "2022 OPC Award Winners". 22 March 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Al Jazeera Official website