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.
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Content Analysis, Print Media, Science Journalism, Science Coverage, Science Communication
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(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.