News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia

News sources are the main important element in news reporting as its function is to ensure that the particular news content is reliable and can be trusted. Thus, this empirical study generally intends to identify the pattern of the news sources used to report on special issues on Islam and Muslims p...

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Main Authors: Hassan, Fauziah, Omar, Siti Zobidah, Hassan, Md. Salleh, Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati, Othman, Siti Suriani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Medwell Journals 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53378/1/News%20sources.pdf
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author Hassan, Fauziah
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Hassan, Md. Salleh
Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati
Othman, Siti Suriani
author_facet Hassan, Fauziah
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Hassan, Md. Salleh
Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati
Othman, Siti Suriani
author_sort Hassan, Fauziah
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description News sources are the main important element in news reporting as its function is to ensure that the particular news content is reliable and can be trusted. Thus, this empirical study generally intends to identify the pattern of the news sources used to report on special issues on Islam and Muslims predominantly in Malaysia and Indonesia. This study was conducted by selecting the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph newspapers as samples for the study. The news samples have been selected from 2012 until 2014. The objectives of this study are to see the pattern of news sources used by these two newspapers and also to compare the sources used within the chosen time frame of the study. The data was collected based on the preliminary study and a total of 445 news paragraphs have been analysed through NVivo 8. However, only 186 of news paragraph mentioned its news sources. The findings presented that 149 of news paragraph used official sources which have been classified into media, institutional, leader and minister. While, only 37 news paragraphs used unofficial sources which consists of civilian, activist, witnesses and victims. From this preliminary data, it can be said that both of the newspapers quoted the news from official sources compared to unofficial sources to report issues relates to Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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spelling upm.eprints-533782017-10-25T05:04:17Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53378/ News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia Hassan, Fauziah Omar, Siti Zobidah Hassan, Md. Salleh Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati Othman, Siti Suriani News sources are the main important element in news reporting as its function is to ensure that the particular news content is reliable and can be trusted. Thus, this empirical study generally intends to identify the pattern of the news sources used to report on special issues on Islam and Muslims predominantly in Malaysia and Indonesia. This study was conducted by selecting the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph newspapers as samples for the study. The news samples have been selected from 2012 until 2014. The objectives of this study are to see the pattern of news sources used by these two newspapers and also to compare the sources used within the chosen time frame of the study. The data was collected based on the preliminary study and a total of 445 news paragraphs have been analysed through NVivo 8. However, only 186 of news paragraph mentioned its news sources. The findings presented that 149 of news paragraph used official sources which have been classified into media, institutional, leader and minister. While, only 37 news paragraphs used unofficial sources which consists of civilian, activist, witnesses and victims. From this preliminary data, it can be said that both of the newspapers quoted the news from official sources compared to unofficial sources to report issues relates to Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia. Medwell Journals 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53378/1/News%20sources.pdf Hassan, Fauziah and Omar, Siti Zobidah and Hassan, Md. Salleh and Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati and Othman, Siti Suriani (2016) News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia. The Social Sciences, 11 (8). pp. 1484-1490. ISSN 1818-5800; ESSN: 1993-6125 https://www.medwelljournals.com/abstract/?doi=sscience.2016.1484.1490 10.3923/sscience.2016.1484.1490
spellingShingle Hassan, Fauziah
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Hassan, Md. Salleh
Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati
Othman, Siti Suriani
News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia
title News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia
title_full News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia
title_fullStr News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia
title_short News sources: distinct usage of sources by the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph in reporting special issues on Islam and Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia
title_sort news sources distinct usage of sources by the wall street journal and the telegraph in reporting special issues on islam and muslims in malaysia and indonesia
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53378/1/News%20sources.pdf
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