“The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Effectiveness of Digital Journalistic Presentation on Official Arab News Agency Websites and Its Relationship with the Preferences of Iraqi Media Professionals: A Survey Study’ took place at the College of Media, University of Baghdad. The researcher, Taiba Khalid Salman, from the Department of Journalism, conducted the research.
The research aims to identify the elements of digital presentation (typographical, graphical, electronic) utilized by the sampled websites and to recognize the elements of navigation and exploration available on these websites. Additionally, it aims to understand the general characteristics of the audience of Iraqi media professionals who follow the sampled websites, along with their preferences and personal interests in the nature of the elements of digital presentation and design on these websites.
According to the research, the most commonly used methods are electronic, mixed, and web units. Furthermore, the three-column layout method was used in some news agency websites.
As per the research, the surveyed audience, which includes media professionals, prefers the presence of headers (banners) on online news websites. These headers provide a distinct identity for the website. They also prefer the availability of diverse media and news services for users to enable them to make better use of the content. Additionally, they prefer having multiple means of navigation and exploration within news websites.”
