Media Professional’s Awareness of Various Information Sources and their Diversified Information Needs

A Case Study

Authors

  • Bhavana PhD. Research Scholar, Banasthali Vidyapith, (Rajasthan) India
  • Sanjay Kataria Librarian, Bennett University, Greater Noida (U.P.) India

Keywords:

Media professionals, Information seeking behaviour, Information needs, Information sources, Mass media, Media libraries, Newspaper journalists.

Abstract

The study explores the awareness of various information sources used by media professionals to meet their diversified information needs. A structured questionnaire was prepared and it was distributed to 350 media professionals in 14 different newspaper agencies including print and digital media agencies situated in Delhi-NCR. The different standard statistics methods and tools were used to analyse the data. The findings of the study reveals that the 'Internet' is one of common source for media professionals to get their required data and information.

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Published

2017-12-31

How to Cite

Bhavana, & Kataria, S. (2017). Media Professional’s Awareness of Various Information Sources and their Diversified Information Needs: A Case Study. Library Waves, 3(2), 86–93. Retrieved from http://librarywaves.com/index.php/lw/article/view/54

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017): July-December

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