Comparing News Coverage of Poverty in Asia
More than eight years have passed since the adoption of resolution on media challenges and responses at the 2001 Regional Consultation on Poverty in Asia. The resolution covers advice and suggestions to the press on how to improve their coverage of poverty. Has the press been following the advice and suggestions since then? How has the press been faring in covering poverty? To address these two questions, this study is to compare poverty coverage in Bangladesh,India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the Philippines in light of what the press should do and what the press is actually doing in covering poverty as suggested by the Resolution.
List of Newspapers:
1 = The New Nation, 2 = Times of India, 3 = The Jakarta Post, 4 = The Baluchistan Times, 5= Manila Bulletin
Among the coding items are news sources, news actors, story orientation, story context, story slant, story style, and story function.
Based on the results of the coding, am in-depth interview or survey will follow.
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