This article explores the uses of sources in the news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kuwait between 1 January and 31 December 2020. Our study analyses the sources and actors that were presented in 673 news stories on COVID-19 that were published in nine outlets, comparing media platforms and across time as the pandemic evolved. Our results show that political sources dominated these stori…
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…