ABSTRACT

Newspapers publish the most important stories on their front pages. In this study, the authors analyzed front-page news stories in the Kuwait Times, between 2017 and 2019, to determine whether local news was more prevalent than international stories or vice versa. The study also categorized and examined the front-page stories published in that period. Results show that the Kuwait Times published fewer local (31.7%) than international stories (68.3%). Stories about government and politics (46.8%) were most prominent. These findings contradict the expectation that newspapers generally publish more local than international stories. The caveat is that Kuwait’s expatriate population is about three times that of locals.

摘要

报纸在头版刊登最重要的报道。在这项研究中，作者分析了 2017 年至 2019 年期间科威特时报的头版新闻报道，以确定本地新闻是否比国际新闻更普遍，反之亦然。该研究还对那个时期发表的头版报道进行了分类和检查。结果显示，科威特时报发表的本地报道（31.7%）少于国际报道（68.3%）。有关政府和政治的故事（46.8%）最为突出。这些发现与报纸通常发表的本地报道多于国际报道的预期相矛盾。需要注意的是，科威特的外籍人口大约是当地人的三倍。