Assessing The Media System in Bangladesh and its Impact on Journalists’ Job Satisfaction

This study mainly examines the media system and its impact on journalists' job satisfactionduring COVID-19 in Bangladesh. The media landscape is digitizing and changing, including a new interactive media system. Beyond that, Bangladesh's media industry maintains its own policies in the working environment. Sometimes, the substantial facts of the policies change following different instructions and censorship from several authorities, which can impact journalists' job satisfaction. Aiming at these current situations, this study attempts to analyze the significant current media system and job satisfaction prevailing in the working environment within the media industry. This study follows a quantitative method, specifically a survey among 120 current working journalists with at least 5 years of experience in newsroom and media. This study employs Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory of job satisfaction. Following the theory's five basic factors, including accomplishment, identification or recognition, nature of the work, responsibilities, and development, the study also analyzed the vital inter-dependency between job satisfaction and professional fulfillment within the newsroom's current working environment in the media organizations of Bangladesh. Overall, this study highlighted crucial media concerns that need immediate attention.