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Alex Marquardt, who exited NCS months after his reporting helped price the corporate hundreds of thousands following a defamation trial, has landed a new gig at Al Jazeera English.
“I’m very excited to be joining Al Jazeera @AJEnglish in Washington after years of watching their extraordinary coverage from around the world,” Marquardt introduced Wednesday on social media.
Marquardt was famously at the center of a high-profile defamation case introduced in opposition to him and NCS in 2025 by U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young. A Florida jury discovered that NCS defamed Young and dominated that he might search punitive damages in consequence of a November 2021 report by Marquardt. The report branded Young as a questionable profiteer who exploited “desperate Afghans” making an attempt to flee Afghanistan through the Biden administration’s chaotic navy withdrawal from the Taliban-run nation, implying Young was working on a “black market.”
ALEX MARQUARDT OUT AT NCS AFTER EIGHT YEARS; REPORTER WAS AT CENTER OF COSTLY DEFAMATION TRIAL
Alex Marquardt was famously at the center of a high-profile defamation case introduced in opposition to him and NCS in 2025 by U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for CAA; Jessica Costescu; Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The jury had initially awarded Young $5 million in monetary and emotional damages earlier than Young and NCS reached an undisclosed settlement, suggesting the community paid Young considerably extra money. The jury foreman later told Fox News Digital they had been ready to make NCS pay “somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million to $100 million” in punitive damages.
NCS parted methods with Marquardt roughly 5 months after the trial, and lots of of his now-former colleagues told Fox News Digital at the time that it was “obviously” tied to the expensive defamation case regardless of the community declining touch upon “personnel matters.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Marquardt for remark.
Al Jazeera, which is essentially funded by the federal government of Qatar, launched the English counterpart to Al Jazeera Arabic in 2006. Marquardt will host a daytime present known as “This is America” for the outlet.
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Zachary Young and Alex Marquardt. (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital; Jessica Costescu )
In a post-trial interview, Young stated he hadn’t forgiven Marquardt, calling him out for remaining defiant on the witness stand at the trial. However, Young appeared to carry no unwell will greater than a yr later when requested about Marquardt’s new gig.
“After a year on the sidelines, I’m glad he landed somewhere. Judging by his Twitter, Al Jazeera might be the only newsroom where his coverage and his opinions actually match,” Young informed Fox News Digital.
Marquardt’s announcement was met with congratulatory messages from a number of of his former NCS colleagues.
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Alex Marquardt landed at Al Jazeera English, he introduced on Wednesday. (Fox News Digital/Law & Crime)
On the witness stand, Marquardt insisted his notorious report was not a “hit piece” on Young and that he was proud of his work.
“I wasn’t looking to take anyone down. I didn’t take anyone down,” Marquardt testified.
NCS issued an on-air apology in March 2022 after Young threatened to take authorized motion. But all through the trial, Marquardt and several other NCS staffers testified they didn’t really feel the apology was essential. NCS senior vice chairman Adam Levine admitted to the jurors that the apology was merely a authorized determination.
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Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.