Constructing Media Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Insights from Newspaper Coverage
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The study aims to identify how Bangladeshi newspapers disseminate the information, data,message and also exams what types of contents are used in conjunction with news coverage forframing recent pandemic crisis. A total of 4292 (The daily Star-1597, The Asian Age-1382, TheSun-1313) news stories are analyzed to examine which have been published by media house onthe topic of recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis during 30 January to 8 April 2020 (70 days) inBangladesh. This study identifies 24 contents are used by the newspapers for covering pandemicsituation. In addition; this study shows comparison among the three daily newspapers on every10-day basis. This exploratory finding would be a crucial pathway for media house, journalist,administrators, civil society, and policymakers.
Authors: Md. Salman Sohel, Habib Mohammad Ali, Md. Bodiujjaman
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4407069170