Al-Sahafa magazine of Aljazeera Media Institute published it issue No. 37 under the title: From hastiness for scoop to Deliberation, Social sciences and rediscovery of journalism.

The issue explores, in depth, the possible links between journalism and social sciences, in an attempt to explore how academic tools and research methods can contribute to renewal of journalistic work, expanding diversity of its vision and analysis of reality, improving coverage quality and enriching angles of treatment. The issue also addresses pivotal issues related to rethinking concepts of journalism profession, raising questions about some traditional foundations that governed journalism for decades, and supporting a trend for integrating sociology methods and tools into journalistic work.

The issue includes a series of articles written by journalists and researchers of various professional and academic backgrounds, in which they addressed intersections of journalism with social sciences at theoretical and field levels. Some of the most prominent contributions are: Anas Al-Shaara's article "The Dynamics of Citation: Mutual impact between Journalism and the Social Sciences", Ammar Al-Shugairi's article "Critique of History of Power". Then, Ahmed Nazif addressed relationship between journalism and social research methods in an article focusing on current trends in media colleges and institutes to teaching social sciences.

Mohamed Zeidan also reviews Philip Mayer's book on “The birth of precision journalism”, while Tayseer Abu Odeh examines the cultural dimension in anthropological space and media orientalism. Musab al-Shawabkeh discusses problems of Arab society with investigative journalism, Ana Maria writes about how Gaza is redefining journalism, and Rima al-Qatawi sheds light on human dimension through her article telling stories of Gaza children.

The issue also addresses current issues such as relationship between sports media and hate speech in Algeria, Western media coverage for famine disaster in Gaza, evolution of obituaries in journalism and the phenomenon of avoiding news.

This issue confirms that journalism is no longer just a profession for reporting news, but has become a field of knowledge that interacts with humanities and social sciences, that tries to rediscover itself and expand its tools in reading the world and analyzing its increasing complexities.

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