Professional ethics in news telegram

Abstract Media ethics is a crossroads of ethics and media science or mass communication. Professional ethics has now moved from traditional media to new technologies such as social networks. This research was conducted with the aim of reviewing the comparative observance of professional ethics in the news of the year leading up to the 1396 presidential election on social networks. The method of conducting research has been quantitative content analysis. The statistical population of this research included Isna and Iran channels (Moderate), sharq and Aftab News (Reformist), Tasnim and Fars (Orientalist). Of each channel, 115 news outlets were selected for the period of the year leading up to the presidential election of 1396 and examined for 12 indicators of professional ethics. Data were analyzed using two-dimensional tables and chi-square test. Findings of the research showed that the coping styles of escalation of differences, observance of personality assassination and the use of words and conflicting words of social preferences, observance of respect, observance of independence, fairness and impartiality, observance of answering questions of public opinion, observance of accuracy, observance of legality Respect for national interests, respect for global values and diversity of cultures, respect for criticism and offensive use of photographs, films and texts in comparable telegram channels (principled, reformist, and moderate) in terms of content of difference The National Coherence and National Solidarity Index is not significant in comparable telegraph channels. The three (fundamentalist, reformist, and moderate) have a significant difference in terms of content.