Mobile Journalism and Its Impact on the Speed of News Delivery

Abstract

This study wanted to look at how mobile journalism affects the speed of delivering news for journalists working at the Iraqi Al-Sabah newspaper, in the sense of seeing what the real level of smartphone use is, and which apps they use during news gathering, production, editing, and then publishing. It also tried to see how that all reflects on how quickly the message reaches the audience while still keeping to professional rules, like accuracy, credibility, and verification, For the method, the study relied on the quantitative descriptive-analytical approach, and the questionnaire was the main tool for collecting the data from a purposive sample of 80 male and female journalists, who responded. After that, the data were treated through frequencies, percentages, arithmetic means, standard deviations, and relative weight, and also Pearson’s correlation coefficient in addition to a simple linear regression analysis. In the results, it turned out that the level of mobile journalism use was high, with a mean of 4.12, and a relative weight of 82.4%. And it was also shown that mobile journalism plays a very strong role in the speed of news delivery, with a mean of 4.25 and a relative weight of 85.0%. The correlation findings revealed that there is a strong, positive, statistically significant link between using mobile journalism and the speed of news delivery, since the correlation coefficient reached 0.742. Finally, the regression analysis indicated that mobile journalism use accounts for 55.1% of the variance in the speed of news delivery, The study concluded that mobile journalism is an influential factor in accelerating journalistic work, provided that it is regulated by clear verification procedures and professional and ethical standards