93. Author: Linda M. Dhaif Title: News Media in Satellite Channels: The Cases of Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya Publisher: Usama Publishing and Distribution House, Jordan Year: 2015 Language: Arabic
Description: This book examines the news-building process in Arab satellite channels, focusing on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. In this comparative study, the author tries to determine the criteria the two channels adopt in selecting events, issues and topics during the process of building their news agenda. Among the most prominent criteria identified are the nature of events and their importance to viewers, the editorial policies of news channels, the rules of journalistic practice they follow, the media environment in which they operate, in addition to the type of ownership, whether it is private or public, commercial or political. The study concluded that both channels are similar in presenting news and reports, using images and interviews, but they differ in dealing with facts and views.
94. Author(s): Ezzeddine Abdelmoula & Noureddine Miladi (eds) Title: Mapping the Al Jazeera Phenomenon: Twenty Years On Publisher: Arab Scientific Publishers, Lebanon Year: 2016 Language: English/Arabic
Description: The launch of Al Jazeera marked a milestone in the history of Arab media. Across the region, its reverberations are not to be missed in terms of its impact on media, politics and society. News reporting has been dramatically transformed due to its novel and daring journalism practice. On a global level, Al Jazeera does not shy away from providing a critical counter-narrative. Its reporting continues to impress many and enrage others. A decisive leverage of Al Jazeera’s success has been it audiences from around the world. It has embraced the voiceless and empowered them with a luring platform that encompasses diversity. The book maps this media phenomenon that has fascinated specialists and researchers in becoming a field of study in its own right.
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