Mediating Islam : cosmopolitan journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia

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Mediating Islam : cosmopolitan journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia

Janet Steele

(Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies / Charles Keyes, Vicente Rafael, Laurie J. Sears, series editors)

University of Washington Press, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists are hired for their ability at dakwah, or Islamic propagation. At Tempo, a news magazine banned during the Soeharto regime and considered progressive, many see their work as a manifestation of worship, but the publication itself is not considered Islamic. At Harakah, reporters support an Islamic political party, while at Republika they practice a "journalism of the Prophet" and see Islam as a market niche. Other news organizations, too, such as Malaysiakini, employ Muslim journalists. Steele, a longtime scholar of the region, explores how these publications observe universal principles of journalism through an Islamic idiom.

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