Jordanian Media's Use of Data Journalism in Newsrooms: A Descriptive Study
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Data journalism, newsrooms, Jordanian media, media survey method, journalistsAbstract
The current study dealt with identifying the nature of employing data journalism in newsrooms in the Jordanian media, and to achieve the goals of the study (53%) of the workers in the five local media institutions, who numbered (56), were taken through a simple random sample, and developed a questionnaire consisting of (56) Paragraph and seven dimensions. After verifying the psychometric properties of the questionnaire from honesty and consistency, the questionnaire was applied to the members of the sample, and the results have concluded that the concept of data journalism from the point of view of workers inside the newsrooms in the local media was low, and that the degree of employment Data journalism within G. The news in the local media from the point of view of its employees was of a moderate degree, and the degree of implications that the data journalism addresses within the newsroom In the local media it was a moderate degree, and the degree of tools used in data journalism in newsrooms in the local media from the viewpoint of its employees was a high degree, and that the degree of the most prominent difficulties facing the use of data journalism in newsrooms in a media Local media from the viewpoint of workers in it, and that the degree of the future view of the success of data journalism in the future from the viewpoint of workers in it, was a moderate degree.
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