Funeral and farewell ceremonies

Following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a funeral procession was held and domestic media outlets covered the event. Alongside news reports, a campaign titled "Account of a Farewell" was launched to document the views and memories of students regarding the ceremony. Various media outlets reflected this event from different angles — from crowd attendance to transnational dimensions.

• A campaign titled "Account of a Farewell" was specifically designed and implemented to record students' perspectives and experiences of the funeral ceremony.
• The Young Journalists Club referred to a "sea of crowds" in describing attendees at the ceremony, but none of the sources provided specific figures or estimates of the number of attendees.
• The Young Journalists Club described the event as "an epic beyond a funeral."
• Both the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) and Mashriq News used the headline "A Farewell Beyond Borders," which emphasizes the international or transnational dimensions of the ceremony.
• Video content was published in coverage by the Young Journalists Club and Mashriq News.
• None of the four sources provided specific information about the time, exact location, or details of the ceremony's program.
• No direct quotations from officials or figures present at the ceremony were reported in the available coverage.
• IRNA, with a distinct approach, focused on documenting students' narratives rather than describing the ceremony as a public event.. Coverage difference: The Islamic Republic News Agency and Mashriq News emphasized the transnational dimension of the event through the use of an identical headline, while the Young Journalists Club focused on the scale of domestic attendance and emotional weight of the ceremony with phrases such as "sea of crowds" and "epic." IRNA adopted a completely different approach compared to the other three sources, placing student narrative at the center of its coverage rather than describing the ceremony itself. None of the sources provided objective and measurable data — such as crowd numbers or a list of attending officials — and the coverage relied largely on qualitative and emotional descriptions.