User generated content and news reporting : Twitter as reporting tool for breaking news : a comparative study between al-Jazeera and CNN news channels

Abstract EN

This study seeks to understand and demonstrate how the perception of use media organizations user-generated content, especially twitter for disseminating breaking news.

the study used a quantitative content analysis to analyze 650 tweet to users collected from both al-Jazeera and CNN news channels, from December 20, 2021 to January 15, 2022.

the results indicated that CNN shared tweets about political news more than al-Jazeera and both channels rely on twitter to disseminate human interest, health news and war news more than any other type of news.

findings hold key implications for theory and practice.