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This study examines the image of women as portrayed in the newly independent two Egyptian newspapers, Nahdet Misr or (Egyptian Renissance ), and Al-Masry Al-Youm or (The New Egyptian). The study aims to identify to what extent these two newspapers promote a developmental image about women's roles in society. It is very significant to examine the phenomena of individual newspapers as a new press in addition to the governmental and party press. This is considered a pioneer research for addressing the issue of women in the independent media. The Mass Media reflects the society it exists in. The mass media has a powerful effect on the formation of people's attitudes and perceptions towards specific groups. Women are one of these groups that the media directly affect them by the way they are portrayed and by portraying certain image to the public minds. Previous studies conducted studied women's images in magazines and governmental newspapers. However, this study aims to know whether women are portrayed in a different manner and whether there is a different approach in tackling women's issues in these two independent newspapers. The categories of values were measured by comparing the roles of women as developmental or non-developmental. In General, this study revealed that Al-Masry Al-Youm and Nahdet Misr are approaching towards a positive portrayal for women. Women's political and social role were highlighted showing the importance of women's integration in all the fields of the society to reach a sophisticated level. Attention is no more focused on women's concerns with fashion and cosmetics or being passive housewives whose main interest is nurturing and feeding their families. A new image is portrayed for a working woman who is developmentally participating in the society's enhancement. Both newspapers show the appearance of the so-called "intervention text", such as texts on discrimination against women or education text, sexual abuse in the work place or the harm of stereotypical perceptions of gender roles. Although, the study resulted in some weak points, such as the problems that rural women and the lower class women are facing, yet these two newspapers are trying to promote a positive image for the Egyptian women. More research can be done on the effects of monitoring women's image in the media, such as the Media Watch Project, initiated by the National Council for Women in order to combat all kinds of discrimination against women in the media.

This study examines the boundaries and limitations of the diffusion of "development journalism" among both the editorial body and the journalist body in the Egyptian newsrooms after the 2011 Arab Spring. Newsrooms under study represent different perspectives including state-owned, private-independent, and opposition newspapers. Through in-depth interviews with thirty-seven editors in chief and journalists, the authors studied how the editors and journalists at each newspaper define development journalism, whether the diffusion of development journalism follows a top-down or bottom-up approach, and if development journalism could influence the setting of the news agenda. Results show that the differences are not only apparent in the way development journalism is defined inside the different news organizations, but also between managers and journalists within each. Organizational structures and technological developments are as well factors that affect the way development journalism is diffused inside newsrooms.