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During the COVID-19 epidemic, people began to use social media more intensively as a news source. Social media shares made by Turkey's English-language channel TRT World during the pandemic crisis, constitute the main starting point of this article. As a public broadcaster, TRT world is a tv channel that produces international news in english. The main point of this article is to evaluate the content that TRT World shares on Twitter during the pandemic in terms of Crisis Reporting. In this context, News content related to the pandemic was analyzed on TRT World's official Twitter account. Times of crisis are a factor that increases the importance of responsible public broadcasting. Global voice of the new turkey's TRT World's (Devran, 2015:281) analysis of the social media during the pandemic crisis is expected to contribute to the scientific analysis of social media content. These analyses were performed using emotion and content analysis methods. In the analyses conducted, it was concluded that TRT World produces news with an global and balanced journalistic mentality. It is understood that it processes real, rapid and objective data about the regions heavily affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, with the understanding of responsible reporting during the crisis. It has been observed that TRT World regularly presents its news on social media in order to inform people. As a result of the data stated, TRT World successfully implemented Crisis Reporting through social media during the pandemic process.

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