AUDIENCE ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPETENCY AND QUALITY OF THE REPORTING OF TELEVISION NEWS JOURNALISTS IN JAKARTA
The media is used for the benefit of party coalitions and the business world to cover up fraud and exploit the news conveyed. The government and media owners from political parties sometimes intervene in the press in conveying information so that the press can be controlled through agenda setting. Developing journalism competencies can create relationships between government and society. The research aims to analyze journalist competence influencing news quality and stakeholder assessments of the quality of news presentation by journalists in mainstream media (television). The research methodology uses mixed methods. The research population is the television news audience. The research sample was 240 journalists and 110 audiences. Researchers also interviewed media institutions and media observers. The test results stated that the competence of journalists influences the presentation of news so that the news broadcast has an impact on the audience and stakeholders. Highly competent journalists will produce quality news and have an impact on the audience. Journalists' professional competence, communication, mastering special media knowledge, and having a social orientation as a journalist have been assessed as competencies, except for research because it has been assisted by analytical technology in the era of digital technology. The presentation of news quality is not influenced by information needs based on the community's perspective. Based on the results of interviews with community representatives, managers, and administrators of independent and dependent media organizations, the low quality of news is due to; (1) intervention from stakeholders, (2) violations of the code of ethics occur due to intervention by the government and media conglomerates. (3) mainstream media tends to prioritize speed through mirroring online media, (4) non-online mainstream media (newspapers, television) which follow social media, (5) journalists do not do enough verification, (6) digital media technology problems, (7) the existence of business model built by the digital platform Google Adds which influences clickbait to get advertisements, (8) the proliferation of partisan media which refers to ideology, (9) media liberalization, (10) news quality is only measured based on the number of viewers, (11) young journalists lack of understanding of the Journalism Code of Ethics, (12) complaints from the public, (3) less attractive news packaging, (13) social media competition, (14) less in-depth news analysis, (15) the press is still going too far, (16) broadcasts violate moral norms, (11) liberalization of the media establishment, (17) lack of internal media coaching, (18) lack of creativity in the digital era, (19) hampered by the mindset of journalists who find it difficult to face rapid technological changes media, (20) lack of rewards.
Agenda-Setting 2. Competence of Development Journalists 3. News Quality 4. Media Organizations 5. Stakeholder.