Study of Dependency of Newspapers on News Agency Sources Regarding Science News and all Other News in Asia and Africa in the Last Decade: A Comparative Study
Tapati Basu, Ratul Datta
Citation :Tapati Basu, Ratul Datta , Study of Dependency of Newspapers on News Agency Sources Regarding Science News and all Other News in Asia and Africa in the Last Decade: A Comparative Study International Journal of Media, Journalism and Mass Communications ,2017;3(1):1-10.
In this research, the main objective is to explore the need of the pedagogic study of growing interest in science communication as an area of specialization in the newspapers of Asian and African countries with main focus on dependence on news agency journalism as the main news source of that science news in the last decade. Compared to the Asian and African scenario it is found that, world has already experiencing a widespread diffusion of such activities for sustainable development. Whether science journalism is one of the numerous casualties in the media meltdown in the world is the most pertinent question of the last decade of 21st century. This study involved a survey of 14 most circulated English newspapers from 14 selected Asian countries with 14 different news agency from each country and their dependency were analyzed. Similarly, for African countries, 14 another circulated English newspaper from 14 selected African countries with 14 another news agency were listed and the dependency of those newspapers for science news and all other news were critically analyzed and lastly compared with Asian countries. It has been found that, when, for all other news, newspaper management depend only on their own sources and correspondents and they spend huge amount of money for that, for science news only, they publish only what agency had sent and then more or less the tone of all copies are same in all newspapers, and readers are deprived of better science news.