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The Reflection of Security-Related News on Kurdish Websites
Hoshyar Ahmad Mahmoud, Serwan Anwar Majeed
The objective of this study, titled ‘The Reflection of Security-related News on Kurdish Websites,’ is to determine the extent to which Kurdish websites focus on security news in the Kurdistan Region and the role these websites play in presenting security information. Additionally, this study seeks to identify the types of crimes that pose a threat to Kurdistan's society and examines how security information is presented in terms of format and structure. In this study, descriptive analytics was employed by the researcher, with the mapping form being utilized as the primary tool for data collection. A sample of security news published on Kurdish websites was taken to represent the study, specifically 779 hypothetical year and security news articles from both Kurdistan24 and NRT websites during the twelve-month period of 2022. The study yielded several significant conclusions, the most noteworthy of which are as follows: a strong correlation exists between security agencies and media institutions, Kurdish websites demonstrate considerable interest in the dissemination of security news, and the stability of Kurdish society faces diverse security threats, with attacks from neighboring countries being of utmost importance.
Volume 12 · Issue 2 · April 2025The Significance of News and Last Page Content in "Zar Kurmanji" Magazine (1926-1932)
Magded Khdir Sapan
This research focuses on "Zar Kirmanji" magazine (1926-1932), which was the first magazine in Erbil governorate, published in Rawanduz city by Hussein Huzni Mukriani in collaboration with Sayed Taha Efendi. The research specifically emphasizes the analysis of the last pages' content across the magazine's issues, which contained 107 news, announcements, and articles published in 24 issues. This content holds significant value for researchers to understand how the Kurdish language was used for news writing and information sharing in magazine back pages nearly a century ago, and how the issues and problems of that era were allocated space and documented on the magazine's last pages. The research findings reveal that despite logistical and financial challenges, the magazine played a crucial role in reviving Kurdish culture and advancing education in the Kurdish language. Furthermore, the magazine covered diverse topics including administrative affairs, culture, health, agriculture, and education, demonstrating the magazine's continuous efforts to serve the intellectual and social needs of its readers at that time.
Volume 11 · Issue 4 · August 2024Applying New Media Techniques for Conveying News and Information by Journalists of Broadcasting News Channels
Ako Ali Omar, Hardawan Mahmoud Kakashekh
Despite the fact that the new media through which people around the world are aware of the up-to-date developments as it is the most widespread form of communication, there are still confusions and unclarities among the journalists of news channels in delivering news and data. This research aims to know whether journalists and members of media have developed the new technics and taken advantage of them, or they had not improved. The distinction and selecting the most suitable applications that journalists increasingly use as new media technics require a scientific way of research in order to clear the confusion properly. This research is a scientific attempt to identify the level of awareness and usage of the new media technics by journalists of the Kurdish news channels through taking a sample of the channels’ correspondents that would indicate what suitable applications and how they are used as a new media technic. The research is qualitative and is conducted through surveys. Questionnaires are responded to by 84 correspondents of the news channels, from which samples are intentionally taken. The respondents’ opinion is measured this way. A number of objectives have been achieved in this research. The most important one that the researcher has realized is that the majority of the journalists that work in the news channels are males. Additionally, the majority of the research sample indicates WhatsApp is the most used app. Recommendations are provided at the end of the research.
Volume 11 · Issue 1 · February 2024The exposure level media teachers for the news (eight o'clock PM) of Kurdish television channels
Yahya Omer Fatah, Mahdi Abdullah Hasan
The aim of this research is to understand the idea and direction of the media instructors for the news at 8:00PM in the Kurdish Satellite Channels. The majority of the viewers of the satellite channels pay more attention to the news at 8:00 PM, as the habit of the international channels. The Kurdish satellite channels solicitude to the news of 8:00 PM. The Kurdish channels are preparing special news covering and the companies that are working in the economic fields are emphasizing on showing their advertisements at 8:00 PM news as it is considered as Golden Time by some of the Media Analysts. This research is considered as descriptive research and depends on media theory (Media Tools) and relies on questionnaire forms as a used tool in the research. In the end, the researchers concluded some outcomes such as; decrease the percentage of the News and TV viewers in general as there are alternatives for the Satellite channels. There are some kinds of debate during watching the news at 8:00 PM among family members and, friends and on the other side with the sample of the research, the mass majority of this research samples come first to follow the Political news, then Miscellaneous news, Economy news and then the social news. Most of the research samples show that the Kurdish channels are not alternative for the other news resources
Volume 10 · Issue 2 · June 2023The effects of social media on visual media in news transmission Rudaw channel as an example
Karmand Abbas Homer, Hakim Osman Hamid
This research has attempted to address the influence of social networks on news and information transmission by considering the knowledge of the nature of the relationship between social networks and visual media. This research is important for the Kurdistan Region. It gives television channels a clear view of how to deal when using social networks, and to take the appropriate scientific approach towards developing and creating effects when transferring news and information to their recipients. The type of research is descriptive and done through a survey method. The research's objectives are based on the conducted surveys. The community of this research is the Kurdistan Regional Government's news channel. The sample for this research includes a comprehensive mass of all journalists involved in the process of preparing and producing news on the Rudaw channel. One of the most important conclusions that the researcher has come to is that social networks have an impact on visual media in the process of producing and transmitting news - and this impact is direct: it has created an impact on knowledge, affection, and behavior of visual media messengers. At the same time, social networks have become an important source of news and information for television channels. Social networks have become a reason for the further development of television channels. Television channels are trying to become compatible with social networks, not to let social networks become a reason for their weakness, particularly in transmitting information to recipients
Volume 9 · Issue 4 · September 2022News Processing for Intellectual Terrorism Phenomena in News Websites, Analytical Study: Kurdistan 24 and NRT Websites
Arsalan Rahman Mohammed, Sara Muhsin Qadir
The phenomenon of intellectual terrorism has emerged in different places and times within the framework of the media message. This phenomenon is closely related to the editorial policy of media channels, given the different editorial policy, work environment, and geopolitics in the Kurdistan Region, this study identified the cities of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah as research communities. The (Kurdistan 24) channel website in Erbil and the website of (NRT) channel in Sulaymaniyah were chosen as two research samples. The main problem of this study is about the extent to which the concept of intellectual terrorism is embodied in Kurdish news websites. It is also one of the manifestations of external influences that play a role in formulating the media message and editorial policy of the channel, because the embodiment of intellectual terrorism is more dangerous than terrorism in its general sense, especially since the main goal of intellectual terrorism is to terrorize the other party morally, and to prepare the ground for physical cleansing, distorting the mental image, and thus creating a new mental image.The main objective of this study is to analyze the content of the media message, in which the research samples direct the news to their receivers, and to reveal the hidden side of the media message. The study also deals with the extent to which the work environment and the political conflicts between the parties affect the formulation of the media message and the embodiment of intellectual terrorism in it. Besides defining and analyzing these concepts, phrases, and language, which in turn make up this message. This study, which is based on the content analysis method, shows the extent of the use and embodiment of intellectual terrorism through editorial language and policy by analyzing the news content of both samples. After evaluating the study questions by the evaluation experts, the researcher created tables for the shape and news content of the two samples. Within the content of the study, the concepts of terrorism and intellectual terrorism and their objective were explained from a scientific point of view, and then stations were reviewed on the history of intellectual terrorism in the Kurdistan Region, and the impact of political, economic and geographical conflicts on its appearance. Within the practical side of this study, and through (14) tables, vigorous efforts were made, in terms of form and content, to achieve and analyze these tables regarding the practice of intellectual terrorism in the news, on both (K24) and (NRT) websites. In conclusion, several of the most prominent results of the study were presented as follows:The news treatment of intellectual terrorism on the two websites that are directly related to the media work environment, their sources of funding, and their level of bias in presenting the contents and publishing news. The two websites also created a suitable environment for the emergence and nurturing of ideological terrorism, especially when the level of conflict is at its most intense.