This study aims to identify Jordanian journalists' awareness of the basic concepts of journalistic professionalism by addressing four sets of media quality standards, as abstracted from several studies. Notable among those sets are journalistic content standards, the performance quality standards of newsrooms, institutional standards, and standards of news selection. Furthermore, the study atte…
Journalist right of access to information The speedy progress in sciences and technology, beside of using new communications tools in our daily life make a new environment for cross-borders global cyber space, which is one of the main features of our era. We can say the absolute sovereignty of states is now out-of-date argument, because most of communications sector run from outside the country…
The violent insurgence in Northern Nigeria linked to the group 'Jama'atu Ahlussunna Lidda'wati wal Jihad', also known as 'Boko Haram', has since its outbreak in July 2009 attracted a lot of international media attention. Two notable media channels that have consistently reported it are CNN and Al Jazeera English. By applying the critical discourse analysis technique this article focuses on how …
The research aims to identify the new reality of Iraq’s international relations through the news coverage carried out by Al-Iraqiya TV since the size and nature of the coverage indicate the extent to which these relations have reached. The research problem is summarized by the main question (what is the size and nature of news coverage of Iraq’s international relations in the Iraqi News Cha…
This article engages al-Kawakibi’s Taba’i‘ al-istibdad (The Characteristics of Oppression) as an instance of how Nahda writing dealt with the anxieties and ambivalence inherent in Ottoman Arab modernity. The Aleppine author was a political philosopher who universalized the Arab Muslim as a political subject. The article examines how al-Kawakibi defined “oppression” and “tyranny” a…
A decade after the end of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, I spotlight the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals of the conflict. Following an overview of the immediate and (then-) innovative media tools and techniques used to capture its momentum--blogging, video-making, and online comics--and of Arabic-, French-, and English-language literary writings referring to the war, I focus on how…
The author highlights the main features of the Western tradition of media education that has influenced the development of media and education relationships in the Russian culture of the early XXIst century. Today, we have the three key directions in theoretical understanding and practical implementation. The first is media education for professional work in journalism and mass media. The secon…