Alex Marquardt Joins Al Jazeera English After $5 Million CNN Defamation Verdict

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 2

Alex Marquardt said Wednesday he is joining Al Jazeera English in Washington, where he will host a daytime show called “This is America.”
The move follows his exit from CNN months after a 2025 Florida defamation trial over his 2021 Afghanistan report, in which a jury found CNN defamed Navy veteran Zachary Young.
Jurors initially awarded Young $5 million in damages and were prepared to consider $50 million to $100 million in punitive damages before CNN reached an undisclosed settlement.
Young, who had criticized Marquardt’s trial testimony, said more than a year later that he was glad Marquardt “landed somewhere,” while former CNN colleagues publicly congratulated him.
The case became a costly fallout for CNN, which had issued an on-air apology in 2022 even as Marquardt and other staff later testified they did not think one was necessary.