HOW DID THE PANDEMIC AFFECT THE RESIZING OF TELEVISION NEWSROOMS IN ALBANIA

The pandemic has brought great surprise by transforming many dimensions of our lives, but it has undoubtedly also found the entire media industry unprepared. It has led to the paralysis of every political and economic activity, as well as of media systems, not only in Albania but did not spare the information corporations all over the world. The immediate challenges faced by the media, particularly the traditional ones, were the collapse of information, job losses, decline in advertising, reduction of staff and budgets, biased information, and decreased access to resources. In this article, we aim to prepare a qualitative analysis, of how Covid-19 has re-dimensioned the editorial staff of information television in terms of organization and operation of daily basis of the journalist’s work. In the following, we have taken into consideration our study of three newsrooms of news television, such as: Syri Tv, Euronews, and News 24. The methodology is based on qualitative interviews of the three relevant chief editors of the aforementioned media, such as: Bledian Koka, Anta Muçaku, and Anila Jole. The survey of 23 journalists working in these newsrooms also provides quantitative data, concluding that today’s editorships bring many "innovations" and organizational "changes", that had not previously been embraced by classic TV editors, before the COVID-19.