Reporting Islam in Non-Western Newspapers: A News Framing Analysis

The media’s focus on Islam has shifted in recent decades, although meeting quality reporting standards in the region remains a major challenge. This is due to the media’s proclivity towards emphasizing prejudice in reporting on Islam. As a result, the goal of this research is to see how non-western newspapers report on Islam. Punch and Vanguard were picked from Nigeria using purposive sampling, while The Star and New Straits Times were chosen from Malaysia based on readership and popularity. From November 2015 to September 2016, a total of 599 news articles concentrating on Islam or Muslims were collected from the selected newspapers utilizing an internet-based search. The content analysis of these news stories was done to see how Islam is framed in the newspapers that were chosen. More than one-third (41.6%) of the overall Islam-related articles utilized human interest frames, while more than one-third (38.1%) of the articles utilized conflict frames, according to the data. In comparison to Malaysian publications, Nigerian newspapers utilized more conflict frames (48.9%) in reporting Islam, according to the data (30.4 percent ). The outcomes of this study were expected to contribute to our understanding of how non-western media portray Islam in news reporting.

Author (s) Details

Isyaku Hassan
Faculty of Languages and Communication, Sultan Zainal Abidin University, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi
Faculty of Languages and Communication, Sultan Zainal Abidin University, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Usman Ibrahim Abubakar
Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.

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