Nascent Jordanian television stations want to distinguish themselves from state-owned Jordan TV and pan-Arab satellite channels by announcing their intention to broadcast mostly 'local' items of interest. In Lebanon, several terrestrial stations concentrate heavily on news items from certain Lebanese regions in order to cater to diverse sectarian audiences. Despite some differences, these two e…
Media scholarship has mostly focused on the regional and global dimension of the 'satellite revolution' in Arab news, insisting on concepts such as the 'pan-Arab public sphere' and 'media panarabism.' Taking Egypt as a case study, this article moves from a 'purely' pan-Arab perspective to a broader approach that examines the complex relationship between pan-Arab satellite news media and nationa…
Launched in 1938 as the BBC's first foreign language radio service, 80 years later, in 2008, the BBC Arabic Service also became the first tri-media platform at the World Service offering news and current affairs not only on radio and on online, but also via a fully fledged TV Channel in Arabic. This article traces the intervening transformations by exploring two critical moments in detail and e…
The specialized press is of great importance because it offers special and specialized content and materials that are more attractive to the recipient audience, not like the public press that provides content to all audiences without discrimination, classification, or the adoption of prior standards. and specialized journalism is gaining the attention of scholars and researchers in the fie…
Guided by framing theory, a quantitative content analysis was conducted on news programming from five transnational satellite news channels that broadcast to/from the Arab world—Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English, Al Arabiya, Alhurra, and BBC Arabic. The project examined if differences exist between the networks, and between two dimensions of a network taxonomy—western and liberal commercialâ…
This article analyzes Saddam Hussein's image as portrayed by the three leading Spanish television prime-time newscasts during the Iraq war, from 24 February to 1 May 2003. The television channels involved are the public broadcaster, TVE-1, and two commercial stations, Antena 3 and Telecinco. On one hand, the characteristics attributed to Saddam Hussein as a leader and his relationship with the …
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 …
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…