Variety: On the heels of an explosive wrongful termination lawsuit, sources report that a major shakeup of operations and programming has been in the works for months at the Al Jazeera America cable news channel. Sources paint a picture of desperation inside the channel’s New York headquarters and pressure coming from the parent company in Doha, Qatar, to improve the channel’s fortunes. Al Jazeera America CEO Ehab Al Shihabi has been spending more time at AJA’s central newsroom offices near Madison Square Garden than in the business office in Lower Manhattan.