This study critically examines the representation of the 2006 “suspected aircraft terror plot” at Heathrow Airport in London by three mainstream newspapers in New Zealand—theOtago Daily Times, thePress(Press) and theNew Zealand Herald. It seeks to illustrate how these newspapers espoused an Orientalist view of “Islamic Other” in framing the issue by representing Islam and Muslims as…
This article is part of a larger qualitative study that investigates the Lebanese journalism culture and performance in relation to the Israeli forces' operations against Lebanon and their encounters with the Lebanese resistance between 1996 and 2000. News values and objectivity are key aspects of the culture that this paper explores. It is a story about journalism told by a journalist, yet one…
This study investigates the tone of election news coverage in the evening newscasts of four Iraqi satellite TV channels: Iraqia (government-run), Furat (Shiite), Hurria (Kurdish) and Baghdad (Sunni) for two weeks leading up to the general election. A total sample of 56 evening newscasts containing 857 news stories that were related to the election was analysed. Although all channels claimed to …
This study investigates the tone of political candidates' election coverage in the evening newscasts of four Iraqi satellite television channels: Iraqia (state-run), Furat (Shiite), Hurria (Kurdish), and Baghdad (Sunni) for the 14 days leading up to the 7th of March 2010 Iraqi general election. Iraq is believed to have a new liberal and plural media that emerged after 2003 which is different fr…
Representing Palestine Media and Journalism in Australia since World War I, by Peter Manning Peter Manning, I Representing Palestine Media and Journalism in Australia since World War I i , London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018. Manning's analysis of the special and staff correspondents in Palestine during 1947 and 1948 allow his thirty years of journalistic expertise to shine through.
This study aims at identifying and analyzing the professional values of journalists working in the Gulf newspapers. The research methodology was the survey methodology and included a questionnaire, which was used to collect data from a representative sample of the target group of the study that account for 111 journalists in the GCC. The research concluded that the journalists in the Gulf State…
Objectives: To compare the journal impact factor (JIF) and Eigenfactor score (ES) of Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)-indexed biomedical journals published from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) over the last 8 years. Methods: This is a retrospective study, conducted at Alfaisal University, Riyadh, KSA from January to March 2016. The Journal Citation Reports of ISI Web of Knowledge we…
With the development of mobile internet technology and hardware of computer and cellphone, news reading is transformed from paper media to mobile application for the technical characters of Internet Plus, which becomes daily reading habit and lifestyle trend of wireless communication, and deeply influences the development of the present news publishing industry. By the case study on news APP, t…
This research aims to investigate the approaches adopted by Iraqi newspapers in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Employing a descriptive methodology and survey technique, the study conducts content analysis on articles published in three prominent newspapers: Al-Sabah, Al-Mada, and Tareeq Al-Shaab. A multi- stage sampling method was employed, encompassing 260 issues of the aforementione…