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 …
In this study, we sought to provide an accurate and detailed diagnosis of the transformations witnessed by Palestinian media institutions in light of the new environment of communication, and to know how Palestinian media institutions can establish a new communication model within their organizational structures in line with the new environment of communication in the digital age. It also discu…
A TV report is one of the finest forms of television news work which requires a high level of professionalism and a balance between the correspondents subjectivity and the standards of „rational journalism‟ such as accuracy, objectivity, transparency, and impartiality. Modes of speech and thought presentation are among the powerful tools of building the TV news reports. When using these mod…
This study attempts to complement the lack of standards and criteria of professionalism set forth by the Germans Schatz & Schulz in 1992. They are new standards for the objectivity of the news photo and its relationship with the media text, whether at the level of the directing body of the television news bulletin or at the level of news reports and their photos in particular. We called it "str…
The investigated journalism became an art and special skill took it position as one of the journalism art for its importance in our Arabic societies specially that the political systems in Arabic countries describe political systems that they are dictator and tyrannical admits its officials to act with the countries fortunes without any deterrent or authority or sensor judge the government or e…
Few studies on female TV journalists in the Middle East have been conducted. Neither have Bourdieu's theoretical concepts been used to analyse women journalists' experiences of their professional practice and their strategies for navigating a male-dominated media world in the Middle East. For this unique study, ten Kurdish women journalists that work for six different TV stations in Iraqi Kurdi…