Employing social media sites in producing Television News programs

(An applied study based on Nashratcom program on Al-Jazeera channel)

Abstract

The study aimed to confirm and highlight the importance of employing social media sites in news programs ,identify  social media sites technologies  and the extent of their reflection on news programs, to determine the use of social media sites and the extent to which they are used in Nashratcom program on Al-Jazeera channel.

The problem raised by this research paper is in the following question: What is the extent of employing social media sites in the production of news programs and the extent of their credibility and impact on the recipient? The researchers used the descriptive and analytical method, the content analysis tool, the observation, the interview, and the questionnaire to collect information and data related to the study, and to divide and analyze the data. The sample of the study was Purposive Sample of experts in the professional and academic field, and the study concluded with several results, the most important of which are: The episodes of the Nashratcom program are uploaded on a daily basis to the websites of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Sending news and events to the program via social media sites Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Nashratcom program was able to communicate the voice of the citizen through social media sites., and the researchers recommend to verify the authenticity of news and events on social networking sites before they are broad casted and published.