The role of Facebook sites in facilitating press news coverage a field study on a sample of Constantine state journalists

Abstract

Due to the qualitative leap brought about by communication and information technology in the media field in recent decades, the world has witnessed an important transformation in the news and content industry, with social networks entering the field of competition with traditional media outlets, as Facebook has turned into one of the most important sources of primary information for the media, Many media organizations are following up on these sites through their correspondents and journalists and the information and ideas published on .them that may lead them to press coverage or important news stories

Consequently, these sites provided many services to the Algerian media, the most important of which is promotion, wide reach and spread, and enabling them to recognize the resonance left by the interaction of readers, listeners and viewers with the texts published or video clips broadcast on social networking sites