Employing social netwrking sites as a source in preparing news blletins

Abstract

News releases are the basis of news channels, and they are the means through which the public learns about current events. This study aims to know the sources that the Algerian Echorouk News channel relies on in producing its news bulletins and its priorities in building and making news, so that the study relied on the analytical approach using content analysis as a tool. To collect data on a sample of the news releases of the channel under study, it reached results, the most prominent of which is that the channel focuses on political and economic issues and relies for its sources on its correspondents in the first place, and on social networking sites is also a source from which to draw the news as it is a strong competitor, and that the channel works under the policy of Media similar to the public channels of a classic character.