This article investigates the way (catholic) religion and youth are represented in different Flemish newspapers. The case of World Youth Day (WYD) 2005 offers a well-defined corpus, which is very suitable for an analysis of the discourse on religion, youth and media. Based on a linguistic analysis of the corpus, we have been able to describe the representation given to the WYD, of the presenc…
News has parts and each part gives information about what happened and what happens . For that reason , the study focuses on the second part of news which is lead . Lead is somehow short and brief in order to shed light on some points of the news leaving other points to the paragraphs that come after . To explain the pragmatic aspects of leads , this study shows the influence of using maxims an…
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…
Social media can be defined as a class of online interchange channels dedicated to group-based information, content-sharing, connection, and association (Asur and Huberman, 2010). Several prominent social networking venues include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Media practitioners, in particularly news editors, have taken these platforms to gather, report and share stories to their audience.…
The current study aims to cover the health topics in the Iraqi journalism , to know the concern ‘s level of the Iraqi journalism when covering the health subjects and to know the size of its performance under the diversity of visual and audio medias. The researcher has discussed his research by wording it with a set of inquiries that should be answered via the research and study. He could hav…
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…
In recent years there has been a growing global debate on fake news, technically as "disinformation" and in recent months the expression "infodemic" coined by the WHO due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What these two terms have in common - and the object of this study - is the relationship they have with freedom of expression and the right to information, these fundamental and corollary rights o…