War Reporters In Iraqi Satellite Channels And Its Role In Increasing Understanding Of The Audience Of The News .

Field Study For The Reporters And The Audiences In Baghdad For The Period From 1/07/2014 Till – 1/11/2014

Abstract

The importance of media coverage in the war remains dependent on many indicators for its success, the most important is to have qualified reporters who carry the war news professionally. The idea of this research is to determine the role played by war correspondents working on Iraqi satellite channels during the war against ISIS.
The researcher has chosen ( 40 ) reporters those who was able to contact them and prepared a questionnaire for them to study their situations. Also, he chose an intentional sample from Baghdad audience on condition they should be informed by the performance of the reporters in the satellite channels applying the hypotheses of the theory of depending upon media.
The most important results reached by the researcher are ( 72% ) of the reporters did get instructions from there satellite channels what to do and 95% of them have used the reports as television art preferred upon other arts.R regarding audience it was shown that ( 92% ) of them follow up the reporters reports exposed in satellite channels and (42% ) of Baghdad audience believe that the work of the reporters is necessary to explain the facts and the truth .
Accordingly, the researcher has reached an important result which is there is a correlation between the those who follow up the reporters from satellite channels and the importance of this subject with the audience. Also, there is a relation between the evaluation of the role of the media compared with the reporters and using forms and arts related to media coverage. The researcher has used many statistical methods to verify the hypothesis of his research.