A study of the functions of the local media and their role in the civil development of babylon Governorate from the point of view of experts and specialists

The study aimed to identify the functions of the local media in terms of the news function, the guiding function, the educational function, and their role in the civil development of Babylon Governorate. The study concluded that the media is represented in reducing unemployment, the well-being of life, promoting housing and construction, social problems, health awareness programs, improving the level of higher education, improving the lifestyle, raising the level of health development, social cohesion, developing feminist awareness, improving the reality of learning. Directing the governorate officials towards addressing public problems, developing civil work, shading society, spreading cultural and social awareness. Spreading cultural and social awareness came at the forefront of the jobs performed by the media, followed by the housing and construction variable, then doing civil work, reducing unemployment, and improving reality. The study recommended the importance of opening direct channels of communication between the decision-makers in Babylon and the public regarding their problems and issues (unemployment, poverty, education, health, family and society), and the adoption of a set of media policies to achieve social cohesion, and the need for a specialized media in affairs Economic, which is known as economic media, and it is necessary to give social problems adequate coverage in the media, in addition to the need to convince the population of the theory of vertical housing, and the need to create evil A link between the media and higher education by adopting the academic media partnership between public and private universities on the one hand and the local government in Babylon on the other.