11. Comparison of Coverage about Tunisian
Revolution in Two Newspapers
• Newspapers
the New York Times and the Yemen Times
• Database used to find articles
the Proquest newspaper search
• Number of articles found
7 articles in the New York Times and 3 articles in the Yemen Times
• Keywords used for the research
Tunisian Revolution, jasmine, Ben Ali, democracy, and freedom
12. Finding from the Investigation
• Coverage on the New York Times
mainly focused on Tunisian revolution itself.
moderately reported influence on other Arabian countries.
• Coverage on the Yemen Times
focused on incidents in Yemen inspired by the Tunisian
revolution and how Yemeni people were inspired by the
Tunisian revolution.
not paid much attention to the Tunisian revolution itself.
13. The First Difference in the Headlines
• Headlines of the articles in New York Times
Almost all articles used words directly associated with Tunisia.
• Headlines of the articles in the Yemen Times
All articles except an article used no directly associable words
with Tunisia.
14. The Second Difference in the Depth of Reporting
about the Tunisian Revolution
• Coverage of the New York Times
reported a detail of the inside of the Tunisian
Revolution.
• Coverage of the Yemen Times
reported just the general information of the
Tunisian revolution.
15. The Third Difference in Reporting Influence on the
Other Arabian Countries
• Coverage of the New York Times
reported just possible influence in the future.
• Coverage of the Yemen Times
reported a detail of the actual influence on
Yemen.
16. Conclusion
• The three differences in the coverages of the
two newspapers.
• Reason of the differences
The New York Times
- A world wide newspaper
The Yemen Times
- A localized newspaper
