The author stresses the need for honest journalists when writing and reporting about the Middle East. He comments on the stereotyping that supported colonial designs of the past and the polarization of the Middle East media that resulted from the Arab Spring. He suggests steps journalists can take to escape the entrapment of what he calls as journalistic hustling, particularly human rights advo…
The purpose of the research is to identify the motives behind the use of the smartphones by students of the University of Jordan. Moreover, identifying the reasons for its widespread use, the credibility of the news published in electronic newspapers, the extent of their dependence on them, and the extent of their interaction with them. The purpose of the paper also is to detect the existence o…
Within the growing research in the field of communication, discourse analysts have given a noticeable interest to news by considering it an autonomous type of discourse. It has been shown in this perspective that news discourse possesses institutional features that distinguish it, given its communicative goal of addressing the public and highlighting events that would otherwise go unnoticed. Th…
No sane journalist or journalism student wakes up one day and says, "I'm going to model my career after Jayson Blair." Yet the numbers of perpetrators of plagiarism and story fabrication grow as journalists resign or are forced out under suspicion: Robin Gregg at the New York Post, Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle and USA Today's Jack Kelley. Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg angrily defende…
The author criticizes Dearborn, Michigan Council President Susan Dabaja, who is running for 19th District Court judge, for her reaction to an editorial on the issue of her husband's federal conviction in a cigarette smuggling business. The author asserts that the publication has not only called out local officials who fall short of constituents's expectations, but also recognizes those who made…
The Effecting Factors in The Mass Media in the Sultanate of Oman: A field study on Omani Journalists This study aimed to look into the most important factors that affect the media in Oman; such as the Press and Publications Law (1984), Finance and Advertising as well as social environments such as cultural aspects. In order to answer the study questions, the researcher applied a questionnaire t…
History has shown that a vibrant, free press is one of the best ways to ensure a stable democracy. Getting kids involved and interested in journalism, therefore, should be seamless. But the administrators at the East Jordan Public Schools think otherwise.
The author reflects on the indexation of the "Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia" on PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed list in 2010. It states that being indexed in PMC is an excellent attainment and it presents the continuing and hard work of the editorial board. It says that the future's short term plan is to continue working hard to retain the high standards of the journal.
To a weary high school journalism adviser, the communications magnet program at Grady High School in Atlanta must seem like the Lake Wobegon of high school journalism, where "all of the children are above average." The home of the highly decorated Southerner newspaper, a twenty-page monthly complete with a glossy bimonthly magazine pullout, the magnet program draws budding communicators from al…