The Egyptian government closed Al Jazeera’s Cairo bureau early Sunday, pulled its reporters credentials and blocked the network’s TV signal in Egypt, the network said. “Our staff has packed up our entire office in the downtown bureau and has relocated,” says a producer in an audio report filed here. “We are doing phone interviews. No Al Jazeera staff are going to be using their names anymore on television.”
Later in the day, Al Jazeera was able to reestablish a live picture over Tahrir Square, but staff continued to report live on the phone, not revealing their names or locations in the city.
Meanwhile, many reporters are still tweeting with their names. Dan Nolan is still posting observations from Tahrir Square, promising Twitter followers not to worry about the media crackdown. “We’ll find a way to get this out to you,” he tweeted. Al Jazeera has set up a Twitter list here with its reporters on the ground.
With the Internet still shut down in Egypt, it’s unclear if the government can access Twitter.
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