Tenth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

This research addresses the construction of a questionnaire for investigation of the tendency of different reporters including news photographers, authors, and even interpreters to cover the unethical news behavior referred to as Paparazzi. Examining and obtaining Iranian news photographers and reporters’ understanding can be effective on correct reflection of news and reduction of violence and improper social behavior. This study is of the descriptive research type, which has been conducted as a survey. The research population under investigation consisted of all sports reporters and photographers, in particular, active full time or part time in in the sports report profession in Tehran from April 2017 to April 2018 (N = 600 approximately). Finally, 146 subjects were selected through purposeful and convenience sampling, considered as the final sample in the study. It was found through data analysis that the internal consistency of the measure for understanding of Paparazzi behavior had a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.905 over the entire sample. Furthermore,the confirmatory factor analysis model of the measure for understanding of Paparazzi behavior is greater than 1.96 and significant for all values of t concerning the model parameters including the factor loads and standard errors. As for the replication validity of the measure for understanding of Paparazzi behavior, Pearson’s correlation test was utilized, where the correlation coefficient between two implementations of the measure was 0.772, which is significant at the 0.01 level of alpha. This questionnaire will be very helpful in recruitment by news agencies and newspapers, and can be used easily.