Abstract:

The coronavirus epidemic in Wuhan, China, which began in December 2019 and spread throughout the world in a short time has also led to a critical period in terms of media production and news habits transformation. In the process of fighting the pandemic in which news consumption has increased significantly, news agencies have recorded reading and reached the number of viewers. The current relationships with the conventional media and social media platforms, which became the most important source of information for millions of people closed in their homes during the isolation process, have entered the rebuilding stage. Finally, this epidemic once again highlights the critical importance of journalism and news in crisis periods. In our research, the media and news readers and the audience’s habits were subject to study, the news and content production during the coronavirus epidemic; the impact on this relationship was tried to be periodically measured. In this direction, 328 readers surveyed to determine whether the readers' preferences changed or not during the pandemic process, the time of reading news, the sources of news and the confidence in epidemic news, the data processing used the SPSS 17.0 program. In this extraordinary process, the conversion of habits to the methods of communication has been read and the relationship of the audience with the media has been studied. The study found that the confidence in the media increased in a positive direction during the period of interruption, the access to the news through digital platforms increased, and the audience over the age of 40 did not give up the traditional media tools. Another result of the study in which the relationship between education level and news consumption is periodically measured is that the need for access to information increases as the education level decreases.

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