.Ministry: Ministry of Information
.Minister: Minister of Information
Directorate: Directorate of Printing and Publications in the Ministry of Information
Publications: writings, paintings, songs, images, audio or audio-visual products etc.
and other means of expression whether written, photographic or recorded in any
way including electronic, digital, affixed, magnetic, electronic or any other new
.technology prepared and capable of circulation
Circulation: selling of publications or offering for sale or free distribution or posting
onto walls or displaying on shop facades for the purpose of sale, advertising or
marketing or any other techniques that make them accessible to the public in any
.way
Printing press: machine of set of machinery, hardware and software used in printing,
conveyance of words, paintings, images, films on tape etc. or other media with the
aim of disseminating or circulating them and this definition does not include
machinery or equipment used in printing, writing, copying or imaging of substances
.not prepared for circulation
Printer: press proprietor or manager whether he/she owns the press or benefits
from it or on behalf of its owner or any natural or corporate person who benefits
.from it
.Library: organization which professes the business of publications of various sorts
.The press: the vocation of editing journalistic publications and editions
Newspaper: any newspaper, magazine or other publication issued under one name
periodically at regular or irregular intervals of time including e-newspapers issued or
.broadcast electronically
Special publication: any personal publication that doesn’t include in its content any
.offenses punishable by law or considered a crime
.Commercial publication: any publication related to commercial business
Journalist: anyone who practices the vocation of journalism regularly on a daily or
periodical newspaper or press agency or works as correspondent to an Arab or
foreign news agency or for any other media whenever his/her job in it included
writing, supplying news or reportage and various press topics or any photographic
.images or paintings whatsoever
Editor-in-chief: anyone who is actually in charge of or supervises a newspaper and its
.content
.Writer: anyone who writes in a newspaper regularly or irregularly
Publisher: natural or corporate person who assumes the publishing of any
.publication
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