In recent years, Arab news industries have been confronted with an unparalleled increase in demand for journalistic offers. In parallel, Internet penetration throughout the Arab world has increased significantly, leading to a shift of consumption away from traditional channels towards the digital realm. This article addresses the impact of those recent developments on a shared transnational com…
This article examines US mainstream press coverage given to the aftermath of the Camp David negotiations in July 2000, offering a critical perspective on the events and reactions to the failed summit. In doing so the article is able to identify and highlight the detrimental effects of inaccurate reporting of the Israeli--Palestinian conflict in the US press. It demonstrates how this misrepres…
Ken Arnold and James Gosling. 1998. 2nd ed, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. [ISBN 0-201-31006-6. 464 pages, including index. $37.95 (softcover).] As more technical communicators settle into documenting the inner workings of systems and related programming outputs, publications like The Java programming language are settling into places of honor on writers' bookshelves.
For obvious reasons, the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) is widely seen as a unique and exceptional case of postcommunist transformation. As a result of its swift and complete incorporation into the Federal Republic of Germany, it is generally not included in comparative transformation studies. This article proposes a reinterpretation of the East German experience that stresses its char…
Data journalism, as a new form of journalism, is gaining ever greater ground on newsrooms. Datasets and visualization applications have contributed to its bloom. Data and visualizations have a dominant role in the journalistic article, and their introduction affects the narration of the story, too. It is, also, considered by news organizations as a tool which provides information to users in me…