{"id":959,"date":"2020-04-29T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=959"},"modified":"2020-04-29T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:42:15","slug":"islamic-news-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/04\/29\/islamic-news-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic News Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing today&#8217;s trend of journalism-related posts I decided to take a look at the top Islamic news sources in the world and what their impact is on their readers and the community around them. Given my earlier post about free-press in Islamic countries I was wondering how reliable the news sources in the Islamic world. My thoughts going into the research was that these sources are probably not very reliable and I was anticipating that most of them are probably state-owned publications. I found a very useful Lib-guide that lists<a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.gwu.edu\/MENA\/newssources\"> Muslim news sources around the world. <\/a>\u00a0Here are a few examples that I could find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Al-Ahram <\/em>is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper according to the Lib-guide. I found that it is owned by the Egyptian government&#8217;s &#8220;Supreme Council of Press&#8221;. essentially the state owns shares of the paper. They view the journalists as &#8220;appointees of the state&#8221; so I found that the publication is not censored by the government because of this understanding.<\/li>\n<li><i>Donya-e-Eqtesad<\/i> is one of the most widely circulated papers in Iran and it focuses on economic news. I found that it doesn&#8217;t currently have an affiliation to the Iranian government and it is often offers moderate criticism to it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list is obviously not limited to these two examples but this was still an interesting exercise for me as a journalism major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing today&#8217;s trend of journalism-related posts I decided to take a look at the top Islamic news sources in the world and what their impact is on their readers and the community around them. Given my earlier post about free-press in Islamic countries I was wondering how reliable the news sources in the Islamic world. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}