148. Name: Kazim Al-Fartousi Title: News Coverage of Sports Events by Al Jazeera Sports Channel: Survey Study of Al Jazeera Sports Newscasts Institution: Baghdad University Country: Iraq Date: 2013 Language: Arabic Abstract: This study examines the news coverage of sporting events on Al Jazeera Sports Channel. It seeks to reveal the size and form of coverage, as well as to identify the professional reality of its employees and the most prominent factors affecting their work. The researcher employed the descriptive survey method to collect data, and used the content analysis method to analyze the news bulletins. The study population consists of the news bulletins broadcast by the channel from 1 February 2013 to 30 April of the same year. The total number of these bulletins reached 89, of which the researcher selected 30 as a regular random sample for his analysis. The researcher also used the comprehensive inventory approach to survey the employees’ professional conditions. The findings show that football news ranked first in the news covered by the main bulletins, with a rate of 84.49% of all types of sports news. The results also revealed that the channel mainly attracts young journalists between the age of 30 and 35 because they have a high motivation for achievement that reflects positively on the channel’s performance.
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