Provide Strategies for Covering News on Social Harm for Islamic Republic Of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)

Social harms as fresh and open wound are always visible on the body of the country's social system and affect many people. Perhaps the lack of standards and a clear roadmap for news coverage of injuries such as addiction, divorce and marginalization, the severity and direction of injuries are also subject to new destructive factors. The issue of presenting social harm news coverage strategies for IRIB is also important in this regard in order to be able to improve the standards of relevant news coverage. Data was collected through the study of library documents and use of in-depth experts in the field of news. SWOT method was used for analysis .After encoding the data, in a general classification, 12strengths, 45weaknesses, 10 external opportunities and 29 external threats were extracted and placed in the SWOT matrix. After SWOT calculations, the final score showed that the current position of social harm news coverage is at the strategic point of the WT, indicating that national media is facing major environmental threats and its resources are weak; In fact Iran Broadcasting is facing serious weaknesses and critical threats in terms of news coverage, especially in the social field in general and social harms in particular, and it is necessary to adopt defensive strategies to reduce weaknesses and avoid external threats in order to be able to gain audience trust and increase the effectiveness of news in this area.