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…
Media studies remains the weakest link in political and social research dealing with the Arab region. The research that exists in this discipline remains limited in terms of research questions, restricted in some form to the question of freedom, and set in a defensive position lacking any originality. This study sheds light on the political press, focusing on the Moroccan Francophone journal, L…
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The Freedom Forum has initiated a two year Ph.D. program for journalists which provides them with a stipend while they pursue their education in the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Chapel Hill. The program is intended to produce journalism faculty who integrate work experience and educational qualification. This will provide students exposure to pract…
This study aims to identify the media coverage of the activities of civil society organizations in the daily Jordanian press, as well as to find differences between them in all content and all categories of analysis statistically. The study relied on the descriptive approach using the content analysis tool which included six main categories with several sub-categories attached. The sample of th…