نشأة الصحافة العراقية المطبوعة و تطورها

الملخص EN

The Iraqi press began with the appointment of the Ottoman governor of Iraq, Medhat Pasha in 1868, and he established the first newspaper called Al-Zawra in 1869, which is an official newspaper.

When the British occupied Baghdad in 1917, Al-Zawra newspaper stopped appearing, and a newspaper known as Al-Arab was published in 1917 and supervised its printing, a news newspaper, and then they issued many newspapers expressing their policies, including the Sada Al-Haqiqa newspaper.

After the revolution of the twentieth, some national newspapers appeared, such as Al Turath and Al Istiqlal.

After the 1958 revolution, many newspapers appeared that were in line with the state's orientations.

After the Ba'ath Party took power in 1968, until the American occupation in 2003, and the Iran-Iraq War and the Second Gulf War (1980-1991), newspapers in general were owned by the government to implement its policies.

After 2003, as a result of the American occupation of Iraq and the spread of chaos, hundreds of private and party newspapers appeared, in addition to the national newspapers that had social and sectarian tendencies.