Religion and the media are today intertwined in powerful and profound ways. This reflects a situation of much significance. The dilemma is that (for many) the media is the central source of information about religions other than our own, and yet it seems ill prepared for the role it plays. Besides, religion can no longer control its own story or its own symbols, or how these religious ideas, sy…
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…
This content analysis examines Egyptian newspaper output during an important period relatively late in the Hosni Mubarak era. Specifically, the study analyses the official Al-Ahram, the independent Al-Masry al-Yom and the opposition Al-Wafd. The coding scheme addressed the three newspapers' choice of news topics, framing of the government and political opposition, and treatment of average Egypt…
Egypt is going through a dramatic transition in its media sector. The proliferation of satellite and Internet technology combined with pressure to free the media and the government's relative acceptance of media openness have created an environment that has attracted many agencies, associations and foundations to invest in training programmes intended to develop the journalism profession. Thi…
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…
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…
This study aims to identify the features of the Electronic Journalism and its reflections on the Jordanian Press from the viewpoint of a sample of the media and journalists. It also aims to find differences in the averages of their responses on that according to some demographic and functional variables. The study relied on a descriptive analytical approach where the sub-sample survey consisted…