Analiza sadržaja informativne televizijske emisije u kontekstu upotrebe mobitela u izvještavanju o ratu u Ukrajini

The development of digital technologies has changed the journalistic profession and the ways of creating content, collecting information and distributing news, in which recordings created by mobile phones are increasingly used. This contributed to the development of citizen journalism, whose role came to the fore in the reporting of the war in Ukraine, during which citizens disseminated video materials via smartphones and social networks, which were then broadcast on television shows, which was not a common practice until now. Therefore, the aim of this work is based on the analysis of the role of mobile phones in reporting on the war in Ukraine with the aim of determining whether there has been a change in the way journalists and television companies work and report. For the purpose of the research, ten RTL Direkt shows before the start of the war in the period from February 10 to February 23, 2022, and ten shows after the start of the war from February 24 to March 14, 2022 were analyzed, and a semi-structured interview with RTL was additionally conducted. -’s reporter and videographer who happened to be in Ukraine at the beginning of the war and shared their experiences of using mobile phones while reporting on the war. The analysis of content found that the use of video material recorded by mobile phones increased in news broadcasts after the start of the war in Ukraine by 4.3 times, which shows that the war in Ukraine influenced the change in television practices.