301. Name: Gehad N.M. Ali Title: Arab News Channels Coverage of the Arab-Iranian Political Relations Institution: Mansoura University Country: Egypt Date: 2021 Language: Arabic Abstract: This study examines the media coverage of Arab news channels for the Arab Iranian political relations, focusing on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya channels as cases for this research. The study also aims to understand the editorial policies guiding the news coverage of these two channels and to what extent their policies agree or disagree with those of their sponsoring states. This descriptive study draws on the media framing theory and uses the content analysis approach and the survey tool to collect the required data and analyze the content of a selected sample of news items. The researcher then compares the media coverage of the two channels to determine the similarities and differences in their coverage of the Arab Iranian relations based on their policies and the interests of the countries to which they belong. The research findings showed that the coverage of the nuclear agreement negotiations ranked first in both Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya’s coverage. In terms of journalistic genres, news reports on the Arab Iranian Political relations rated very high in both channels, exceeding all other types of journalistic forms.
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