Abstract:
The media has spread widely in Bangladesh over the last few years. At the same
time radio, television, online news portals, daily newspapers are making an impact
through social media. With the increasing use of the internet and smartphones,
people want to know information quickly or any event as soon as it happens. The
journalists have to collect information quickly and send it to the office. This study
has shown that smartphones are able to meet that demand of journalists. On the
other hand, it is helping readers, listeners, and viewers to meet that demand.
Journalists are using smartphones to send information to the office quickly, on the
other hand, the general public is getting it quickly through the internet. In this
study, we will see how a journalist is using a smartphone to gather information or
news in Bangladesh.
Description:
This study is based on smart-phone utilization in news-gathering, with a focus on
journalists in Bangladesh. The study became imperative because when growing up
information technology in Bangladesh than journalists using smart-phone widely
and new technologies related to effective journalism, moreover information, or
news-gathering. This Survey method is accepted in gathering responses from
Bangladeshi journalists.
Purposive sampling technique is accepted and used to distribute a questionnaire to
google 'Docs Forms' in 33 journalists that are using for study by the online platform
in Bangladesh.
When I am analyzing the research questions, results indicated that most of the
journalist's using smartphone and they think the new technology do easier news-
gathering in Bangladesh, and at the same time, they are using social media and
apps for collect information for a news story.
So most of the journalists are aware of the new technologies in journalism, most of
the journalists using smartphone features. As-like Camera, voice recorder, E-mail,
Facebook, Facebook messenger, WhatsApp, etc.
