Science Journalism in Pakistani Print Media: A Content Analysis of Daily Dawn and The News International

Global Social Sciences Review Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI:10.31703/gssr.2023(viii-ii).23

Shehzad Khan, Sajjad Ali, Abdul Shakoor

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Science journalism is a special form of journalism that primarily covers topics such as science, engineering, technology etc. This study has been conducted to find out the coverage of Science Journalism in Pakistani English Print Media. The researcher applied both Qualitative and Quantitative content analysis methods for the collection of the data. Through this method the researcher collected data from the Pakistani English newspaper; Daily Dawn and The Daily News International. The researcher collected data from five pages including pages 1, 2, 3 4 and 12. The researcher collected data from three days including Monday, Wednesday and Friday through a systematic sampling procedure from 6 months of Newspapers (N=72+72=144). It is found that both newspapers covered science journalism whereas; a total of 211 news stories were published in 6 months from January 1, 2022, to June 30, 2022. Daily The News published 46.9% while 53.1% were published by Daily Dawn. The results revealed that The Daily Dawn has given more coverage as compared to The News International in the last six months of 2022 science journalism.

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巴基斯坦平面媒体的科学新闻:《黎明日报》和《国际新闻报》的内容分析

科学新闻是一种特殊的新闻形式，主要涵盖科学、工程、技术等主题。本研究旨在了解巴基斯坦英文平面媒体的科学新闻报道情况。研究人员对数据的收集采用了定性和定量的内容分析方法。通过这种方法，研究人员收集了巴基斯坦英语报纸的数据;《每日黎明》和《国际每日新闻》。研究者收集了包括1页、2页、3页、4页和12页在内的5页数据。研究人员以6个月的报纸(N=72+72=144)为对象，通过系统抽样的方法，在周一、周三、周五三天内收集了数据。结果发现，两份报纸都报道了科学新闻，而;从2022年1月1日至6月30日，6个月内共发布新闻报道211篇。Daily The News发布了46.9%，Daily Dawn发布了53.1%。结果显示，在2022年科学新闻的最后六个月，《每日黎明》的报道比《新闻国际》多。

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