The new managing director of Al-Jazeera English has told his employees that he believes the TV news channel suffers from a “bullying, abrupt, top-down culture” that “frequently smothers open debate and discussion.”
In an email, seen by MediaGuardian.co.uk, to all staff and contributors working for the English-language channel of the al-Jazeera network, Canadian broadcasting executive Tony [...]

A transportation group is accusing the state Education Department of not keeping its training programs for school-bus drivers up to date.
The state annually sets aside $400,000 for school-bus-driver safety training through the Education Department and a database of accidents. In 2007-08, more than $159,000 of the total was not spent, said Peter Mannella, executive director [...]