التغطية الصحفية لجائحة كورونا في المواقع الإلكترونية للصحف العراقية : موقع صحيفة الصباح نموذجا

Abstract EN

The novel Corona virus is one of the important topics and matters that affects all countries of the world.

Therefore, the governments of countries pay great attention use all their means, facilitate all methods in order to confront the danger of this pandemic that has become a threat to the lives of people.

On the other side, and since the official media, especially the press, have a great role as one of the state's facilities in dealing with and covering many topics and issues that appear on the scene, whether they are political, economic, social, health and others, the Iraqi press had to pay its entire attention in covering that issue of Corona, which has become one of the threats to the Iraqi society at the health level; thus, this research is considered one of the significant steps that can be used to determine the type of press coverage that Iraqi newspaper websites make and how they deal with the topic of Corona virus.

Therefore, this research is concerned with conducting a content analysis on what is included in the websites of Iraqi newspapers and focuses on the website of the Iraqi newspaper, Al-Sabah as the official newspaper that has represented the tongue of the Iraqi government for the period from 1/6/2020 to 31/7/2020.

In addition to that, this research uses the analytical survey method as a research method and adopts the complete census style as an important tool for studying all the topics published on the site related to Coronavirus during the specified period of research.

To conclude, the research reveals its results on the most important topics and journalistic contents to which the site paid great attention, as well as the most important journalistic arts used on the site for its coverage of the topic of Coronavirus, in addition to the most important solicitations used in the press coverage process.