28, September 2025

News coverage in print media on terrorism – Nature verses time spent in English and Telugu newspapers

VOLUME-9; ISSUE-9; SEPT-2025

Author(s): Dr. Sunil Kumar Pothana

Authors Affiliations:

Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication,

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, India.

DOIs:10.2017/IJRCS/202509010     |     Paper ID: IJRCS202509010


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This study is conducted to explore whether the respondents' daily newspaper reading habits and the kind of terrorist coverage they see in English and Telugu newspapers are related. There is no significant correlation between the sort of media coverage in English-language newspapers and the amount of time spent reading them. To determine whether the sort of coverage of terrorism in Telugu newspapers and the amount of time spent reading newspapers daily are correlated. It concludes that there is no significant correlation between the sort of media coverage in Telugu newspapers and the amount of time spent reading them. After the Pulwama and Pahalgam incidents, readers are showing interest in reading terrorism-related news. The value of the news is also high. It is also necessary to know from which perspective the readers understand the terrorism-related news. Some readers read terrorism-related news with positive natures, some as a neutral, and some with negative natures.

   
Print Media, Terrorism, Newspapers, Reading Habits, English Newspapers, Telugu Newspapers

Dr. Sunil Kumar Pothana (2025); News coverage in print media on terrorism – Nature verses time spent in English and Telugu newspapers, International Journal of Research Culture Society,    ISSN(O): 2456-6683,  Volume – 9,   Issue –  9,  Pp.50-53.        Available on – https://ijrcs.org/

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