Journalist
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Applying New Media Techniques for Conveying News and Information by Journalists of Broadcasting News Channels
Ako Ali Omar, Hardawan Mahmoud Kakashekh
Despite the fact that the new media through which people around the world are aware of the up-to-date developments as it is the most widespread form of communication, there are still confusions and unclarities among the journalists of news channels in delivering news and data. This research aims to know whether journalists and members of media have developed the new technics and taken advantage of them, or they had not improved. The distinction and selecting the most suitable applications that journalists increasingly use as new media technics require a scientific way of research in order to clear the confusion properly. This research is a scientific attempt to identify the level of awareness and usage of the new media technics by journalists of the Kurdish news channels through taking a sample of the channels’ correspondents that would indicate what suitable applications and how they are used as a new media technic. The research is qualitative and is conducted through surveys. Questionnaires are responded to by 84 correspondents of the news channels, from which samples are intentionally taken. The respondents’ opinion is measured this way. A number of objectives have been achieved in this research. The most important one that the researcher has realized is that the majority of the journalists that work in the news channels are males. Additionally, the majority of the research sample indicates WhatsApp is the most used app. Recommendations are provided at the end of the research.
Volume 9 · Issue 3 · June 2022The Level of Compliance of Journalists with the Media Ethics; Readers’ Trust in the Kurdish Newspapers, as an Example
Shakhawan Mohammed Sulaiman, Magdid Khidr Ahmad
The research, as it is implied in the research title, aims at investigating the compliance of journalists with the media ethics and the readers’ trust in the Kurdish newspapers. Determining the level of readers’ trust in the Kurdish newspapers is an incentive for journalists to adhere to truthfulness and the principles of media ethics. Determining the level of compliance of media corporations with the principles of media ethics urges journalists to abide by the media ethics and the treaties of ethics. The purpose of the research is to understand the level of compliance of journalists with the principles of media ethics, the level of compliance of the media corporations with the media ethics, and the effects of the political conflicts on the noncompliance of journalists with the media ethics. The research problem is the mistrust of readers in the Kurdish newspapers in Kurdistan Region. The researcher has utilized the descriptive survey methodology where survey forms are distributed in which two types of information was collected: the general information which includes gender, age, location, occupation, education; and the private information which the researcher has mentioned above. There were 450 forms distributed among an intended audience which included journalists, public workers, self-employed, university professors, and students in all the three provinces of Erbil, Suleimani, and Duhok. The research outcome demonstrates that the readers’ trust in the Kurdish newspapers has declined due to noncompliance with the media ethics which include impartiality, truthfulness, objectivity, and discretion and that is due to journalists ignoring the principles of media ethics.
Volume 7 · Issue 2 · April 2020The Impact of COVID- 19 on Social media user behavior and their usage level: The Kurdish Journalist as a Case.
Nazakat Hussein Hama saeed, Hakim Othman Hameed
This study relies on an online questionnaire survey paper, The aim of the study is to Carry out that during coronavirus and lockdown which causes people to stay at home and prevent them to get outside. “Who lost their jobs temporarily because of covid-19?” how impacted on social media user behave and their level of using .Dose being online for most of the aspect of life made journalists to use social media more than ever before. This paper focused on Journalists, because they are more intelligent to use social media and much more need to use social media regarding their jobs. For this purpose, this paper use survey method to collect data sample size which is 101 journalists 101 form being returned and responded by the Journalists from all of Kurdistan Region governess, and all type of media organization such as printer ,digital and broadcast media .So that gain the answer, do the Journalist behave and their level of using social media being changed when compared coronaviruses time and before coming this crisis .