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Economic Journalists' Qualifications in the Arab World: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Academic Program Offered by Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman

Economic Journalists' Qualifications in the Arab World: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Academic Program Offered by Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman

Abdullah K. Al-Kindi
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522538783|ISBN10: 152253878X|EISBN13: 9781522538790
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3878-3.ch017
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Al-Kindi, Abdullah K. "Economic Journalists' Qualifications in the Arab World: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Academic Program Offered by Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman." Promoting Interdisciplinarity in Knowledge Generation and Problem Solving, edited by Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, et al., IGI Global, 2018, pp. 258-279. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3878-3.ch017

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Al-Kindi, A. K. (2018). Economic Journalists' Qualifications in the Arab World: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Academic Program Offered by Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. In M. Al-Suqri, A. Al-Kindi, S. AlKindi, & N. Saleem (Eds.), Promoting Interdisciplinarity in Knowledge Generation and Problem Solving (pp. 258-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3878-3.ch017

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Al-Kindi, Abdullah K. "Economic Journalists' Qualifications in the Arab World: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Academic Program Offered by Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman." In Promoting Interdisciplinarity in Knowledge Generation and Problem Solving, edited by Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, et al., 258-279. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3878-3.ch017

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Abstract

As regards the issue of journalists' qualifications and media professionals in general in the field of media work, evidently including economics, the countries of the world are divided into two main directions: the direction of general scholastic qualification, and the trend of specialized qualitative qualification that separates work fields and distinguishes between the skills and conditions to be provided by journalists working in a specialized field. In fact, working in the field of economic journalism requires a qualitative qualification that responds to the nature and special work conditions in this area. Furthermore, when some international universities offer quality qualification programs in the field of economic journalism, the majority of Arab world media qualification institutions continue to adopt the classical approach in qualifying economic journalists. Actually, academic institutions give professional institutions, where journalists are supposed to work after graduation, the task of compensating for their lack of information and skills in deferent areas of specialization. Hence, this study presents a proposal for the establishment of an academic program between the media and economics, called “Economic Journalism”, throughout which journalists specialized in economics, are trained through a university qualification program that combines journalism knowledge and its arts with the fundamentals and principles of economics. This program is suggested to be offered by Sultan Qaboos University, in the Sultanate of Oman and could be adopted by other Arab universities and could well benefit from international experiences in qualifying economic journalists so as to build an academic program model that would reflect the importance of an overlap across science disciplines. This will help in having qualified human cadres in the economic journalism. Eventually, the study is based on an analysis of the current global economic journalists' qualification trends through a close reading of the available university programs worldwide.

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