[9] Othman Al Omeir who owns the liberal Arabic e-newspaper Elaph was a member of the paper's board of directors.

[11] In 1977, Abdel Rahman Al Rashid was appointed editor-in-chief of the daily, who also served as a correspondent and as its Washington bureau chief from 1981 to 1985.

[16][26] In addition, the editors of the paper were invited by the World Association of Newspapers to its 2007 conference held in South Africa.

[6][28] The Arab Press Network states that the paper extensively covers the activities of the ruling Saudi family and adopts an uncritical approach towards the government's policies on most of its 60 daily pages.

[28] The minister of health Ghazi Al Gosaibi's poem written for King Fahd, entitled "A Pen Bought and Sold", was published on the front page of the paper in 1984.

[29] In the poem, Al Gosaibi indirectly accused the ruling elites, including Prince Sultan, then minister of defense, of corruption and Saudi Oger of improper tender activities regarding the public hospitals.

"[32] On 3 and 10 January 2002, a commentary entitled "Why Pork Is Forbidden?” by Muhammad bin Saad al Shuwayir was published in the paper.

[33] Al Jazirah was among the pro-Saudi publications such as Al-Hayat, Asharq Al-Awsat and Okaz which uncovered the position of Saudi Arabia concerning the potential invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2002.

These media outlets advised Iraqi President Saddam Hussein either to abdicate or to commit suicide to avoid the American invasion.

[36] In September 2008, a reporter of the paper, Fahd Al Jukhaidib, wrote an article in which he described frequent power cuts in Qubba in northern Saudi Arabia.

The article also informed the readers about a protest in front of the government-owned electricity company as a result of power cuts experienced.