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Business and Financial News in the Arab World: Currency and Value of Journalism in the Middle East and North Africa

by Jairo Lugo-Ocando
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780755649846
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Journalism, World / Middle Eastern, and Finance / General

This book explores how journalists in the Middle East and North Africa report financial and business issues. It examines the diversity of news cultures, news values and reporting practices that take place and assesses the degree of professional autonomy that journalists are able to exercise in the context of each one of these societies.

The book is based on empirical research in several countries, including Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar and triangulates different qualitative and quantitative methods, adopting a mixed-methods strategy. Including content analysis of MENA newspapers, semi-structured interviews, which were conducted with journalists and editors who work with the same newspapers used for the content analyses, the findings confirm that news reporters face tremendous obstacles in the region. However, many of these challenges are not primarily due to the political and religious contexts in which they operate, as one might expect, but rather to some of the same reasons that underpin similar limitations in the West; that is, being too close to their corporate sources and there being a general lack of expertise and skills.

Fisal Alaqil, PhD (Leeds) is an Assistant Professor and the Head of Mass Communication Department at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Before becoming an academic, he worked as Media Planner Officer at Saudi Research and Marking Group and as a news reporter for the Saudi newspaper Al Eqtisadiah.

Jairo Lugo-Ocando, PD (Sussex) is a Professor of Journalism and the Dean of the College of Communication at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Previously he was at Northwestern University in Qatar, the University of Leeds, UK, and at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was recipient of the Theodore C. Sorensen Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy Library and was a visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore.

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