For news junkies, Nashville reached peak Itness when Al Jazeera America, the new American wing of the Arab news organization Al Jazeera, announced it would be placing a bureau in Nashville. Led by former WSMV weekend anchor Jonathan Martin, a small crew uses Nashville as a home base from which to report on stories from around the region. And on occasion, they toss it back to former Nashvillian John Seigenthaler at the anchor desk in New York.

