SEARCH ARTICLE

22 Pages : 171-179

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).22      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).22      Published : Dec 2019

Association of Print Media Agenda and Policy Agenda on International Relations of Pakistan with USA

    The aim of the study was to examine the the association between print media agenda and policy agenda (State and NGOs) and its impact on the foreign policy of Pakistan with USA from 2015 till 2017 on categorized issues. Data is collected from DAWN and The News International of Pakistan. Quantitative research method was adopted and content of newspapers and policy documents (State and NGOs) was analyzed to find out the coverage, rank order, frame, slant and association between print media agenda and policy agenda (State and NGOs) regarding Pak-US relations issues. Findings revealed that print media agenda and state policy agenda are associated (rs =+.362) having moderate positive association and print media agenda and non-government policy agenda are associated (rs=+.490) having moderate positive association. Hence, hypotheses are supported.

    Content Analysis, DAWN, International Relations, The News International, Print Media Agenda, Policy Agenda.
    (1) Hayam Qayyoum
    PhD Scholar , Department of Mass Communication, Allama Iqbal Open University ,Islamabad, Pakistan
    (2) Saqib Riaz
    Chairman, Department of Mass Communication, Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, Punjab, pakistan.
    (3) Babar Hussain Shah
    Lecturer,Department of Mass Communication,Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, Punjab, pakistan.

23 Pages : 248-256

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-II).23      10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-II).23      Published : Jun 2023

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

    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.

    Content Analysis, Print Media, Science Journalism, Science Coverage, Science Communication
    (1) Shehzad Khan
    Undergraduate Scholar, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Malakand, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Sajjad Ali
    Assistant professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Malakand, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Abdul Shakoor
    Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Lahore Leads University Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

09 Pages : 78-86

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2024(IX-III).09      10.31703/gssr.2024(IX-III).09      Published : Sep 2024

Coverage of Women's Empowerment Issue in Pakistani Newspapers: An Agenda-Setting Perspective

    In the current research, a quantitative content analysis of four leading newspapers Dawn, Daily Times, Nawa-i-waqt, and Daily Jang was conducted to investigate the patterns of coverage of women empowerment. The time period for this study consisted of November 2023 to April 2024. The results showed that Urdu newspapers gave more coverage to the issue at hand as compared to English newspapers and Nawa-i-waqt gave the maximum amount of news regarding women empowerment as compared to other newspapers. The outcome of this research revealed that Pakistani Urdu newspapers give suitable coverage to women empowerment-related news, although different newspapers use different agendas to portray news related to women empowerment, such as political empowerment, social empowerment, economic empowerment, and education empowerment. The results showed that more importance was given to political and social empowerment and the common agenda of these four newspapers was social and political empowerment.

    Women Empowerment, Pakistani newspapers, Agenda Setting, Political Empowerment, Social Empowerment, Women in Print Media
    (1) Samia Manzoor
    Assistant Professor, Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Fatima Mushtaq
    MPhil Scholar, Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Sabiha Ibrahim
    MPhil Scholar, Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.