Publication: Terrorism News Reporting in Southeast Asian Muslim Countries: A Comparative Study of Terrorism Issues as Reported by The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph (2012-2014)
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2016
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Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
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Scholars, academicians, authorities, politicians and others have done many researches on terrorism issues and Islam from different perspectives at local and international level. This article would like to present terrorism issues that have been reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and The Telegraph (TT) pertaining to the coverage of Islam and stories on Muslims in Southeast Asian Muslim countries primarily in Malaysia and Indonesia from 2012 until 2014. It specifically explores on the frequency of reporting on terrorism issues between the two newspapers. The analysis of this study is based on a content analysis approach. The data were collected based on the preliminary study, which analyzed 445 news paragraphs by using QSR NVivo8. However, only 290 news paragraphs were fit to be analyzed based on the objectives of this study. The findings suggested that 178 news paragraphs from WSJ and 112 news paragraphs from TT reported news on Islam and Muslims under the theme of terrorism. The results displayed that Malaysia received high reporting from The Telegraph newspaper specifically on the issue of terrorism in three consecutive years (2012 to 2014). In contrary, Indonesia received high coverage on terrorism issues from The Wall Street Journal and received very minimal coverage from The Telegraph from 2012 to 2014.
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Volume: 3 No: 1
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Extremism Issues, News Reporting, International Newspapers, Terrorism History and Terrorism News Reporting