الفهرس 
الإطار المنهجي والإجرائي للدراسةيوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
The study, titled “Factors Influencing Journalistic Editing in the
Websites of Palestinian News Agencies; Study of the mass
communicator, the working environment and the pattern of ownership,
included 7 chapters. The first chapter offered a detailed description
beginning with the methodological and procedural framework of the
research. The second chapter presented the theoretical framework of the
study, which included a detailed analysis of the Agenda-setting,
communication and the Gatekeeping theories.
Meanwhile, the third chapter was presented under the title “Online
journalism, its forms and development in Palestine”. This chapter
discusses the phases that online journalism in Palestine has gone through
as well as its many forms and the obstacles which hindered its
development, concluding with the electronic Zionist war, which was
introduced as a reflection to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
As for the fourth chapter which came under the title, “Palestinian News
Agencies”, it hightlights the founding of such agencies, their
development and the interactive services they provides.
The fifth chapter tackled the issue of journalistic editing and forms in
online media, the most prominent approaches of editing in news
agencies, editorial policy of online websites, selection standards of news
stories and journalism genres in electronic press.
The sixth chapter discussed in detail the factors influencing news
editing, communication technology and its effect on news editing. The
chapter further discussed the features of electronic writing and the
impact of communication technology on news editing.
Lastly, the seventh and final chapter shared the results of the analytical
study and the field research, the recommendations and suggestions for
future research.
This study deployed two research methods, including a media survey
and a comparative approach. The population of the study is
compromised of 186 individuals, who represent the communicators during the time when the study was conducted. A total of 124
individuals provided responses. Furthermore, the study was conducted in
the West Bank, including Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and abroad due to
the fact that a number of the communicators who are part of the study
are based in Lebanon, Cairo and Amman.
The researcher analyzed the media websites, which are included in the
study, using two topics; the Palestinian reconciliation and the prisoners’
suffering in the Israeli occupation jails from October 20 to December 19
of 2014 for a total of 60 days. The study deployed the method of
comprehensive analysis and the use of two distinct topics, because it
promises to offer the researcher a chance to discover how the topic
determines the use of certain journalism genres.
The results revealed that the most prominent factors influencing editorial
policies in the websites included in the study are, in order of importance;
the political situation, media ownership, the target audience, the
communicator’s party affiliation, the funding, the security conditions
and lastly, the training level of the communicators.
As for the internal Palestinian factors influencing journalistic work in
the websites included in the study, are in order of importance, the lack of
a modern law that protects journalists, the dependence of the judicial
system, the division between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the
interference of Hamas’ armed forces in journalistic work, the
deterioration of the political security situation and lastly the poor
cooperation between media institutions.
Furthermore, the study revealed that the most prominent factor which
determines the daily media work plan is the current daily events and
their developments. The daily work plan is also determined by the
personal assessment of the reporter or senior editor, then the editor in
chief, the coverage of competitor media websites, and lastly the
directives of the News Agencies Chairman of Board.
To sum up, taking into consideration the results of both the analysis of
the issue of prisoners and the Palestinian division, the study revealed a significant relation between the nature of a specific media website (official, partisan, private) and the tendency to use certain editorial
templates in its journalistic editing.
The study produced a number of results, most notably, a slight majority
of the respondents, around 54%, is involved in making editorial
decisions within the agency, while the remaining 46% felt they do not
have a role in the decision-making process. The nature of participation
was found by the researcher to vary.
Furthermore, all news agencies gave a significant priority to Hard News
in comparison to the Story in covering issues related to Palestinian
prisoners; the result intersected to a large extent with the empirical
study. The two news agencies, WAFA and SAFA, entirely neglected the
Story; while WAFA failed to produce any stories to cover the issue of
prisoners in Israeli prisons during the period of study.
As for Journalism Genres used in covering the issue of the Palestinian
reconciliation, Palestine Today was the most diverse in terms of using
different genres. Although it is worth noting that it matched other
agencies by completely omitting the Story. Meanwhile, WAFA chose to
focus on producing Hard News then Stories.