Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 176
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978-0-7425-3818-4 • Hardback • February 2005 • $132.00 • (£102.00)
978-0-7425-3819-1 • Paperback • January 2005 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-4616-4470-5 • eBook • January 2005 • $42.50 • (£33.00)
Noha Mellor is a journalist and an external lecturer at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I
Chapter 4 1 The Arab Region: Similarities and Differences
Chapter 5 2 History of Arab News
Chapter 6 3 Categorization of Arab Press: Rugh's Typology Revisited
Chapter 7 4 News Values
Part 8 Part II
Chapter 9 5 The News Genre
Chapter 10 6 MSA: The Language of News
Chapter 11 7 Values in Language
Chapter 12 Conclusion
Chapter 13 References
The Making of Arab News is a good contribution to Arab Media Studies. It offers an unprecedented rich mélange of literature on the topic, drawing on empirical research conducted by both Arab and Western scholars. A very informative book.
— Middle East Journal
Noha Mellor's The Making of Arab News is a welcome addition to the scholarship in that it widens the scope of the discussion by looking at the linguistic and cutural parameters under which Arab news media operate.
— European Journal Of Communication
An indispensable resource for working journalists and scholars seeking to understand the Arab journalism world. Mellor's book traces the origin of journalistic practices and gives pause to those who thought they already knew everything they needed to know about Arab journalism. The author questions existing Western theories and concepts of the Arab press and provides readers with an invaluable alternative to currently accepted ideas of why Arab journalists do what they do. This is a highly readable book that deserves a place in any serious scholarly discussion of current and future Arab journalism.
— Dr. Ralph D. Berenger; Journal Of Transnational Broadcasting Studies
—A short overview of Arab news, accessible for students and general readers.
—Analyzes differences between Arab and American news coverage, looking at levels of objectivity, political implications, public opinion, war coverage, and how American-style newsformats have influenced Arab news coverage.
—Includes a concise history of Arab news.
—Focuses on Arab news values and how they are manifested in Arab news.
—Covers the impact of news organizations such as Al Jazeera.
—Looks at the effects of global media convergence on Arab media.
—Includes excerpts from Arabic news in Modern Standard Arabic with English translations.
—Expands on William Rugh's typology of the Arab press, which divides it into four categories: mobilized, loyalist, diverse, and transitional.