Abstract
As elsewhere in the world, Arab news websites depend on revenue streams built on the commercialization of social media platforms. Reliance on these platforms has created a major structural shift in news production, distribution and monetization, which has triggered serious concerns about fake news, misinformation and quality journalism. This paper investigates the extent to which four online-only news websites abide by quality journalism in the context of increasing platformization of digital news production. We use qualitative document analysis to systematically analyse the contents of a representative sample from four news websites from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 243-260 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Global Media and Communication |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2022 |
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The paper was funded by a grant from the University of Sharjah Ref. V.C.R.G. / R. 438/2020.
Keywords
- Arab media
- digital news
- information disorder
- platformization
- quality journalism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)