Importance of Environmental Reporting in Print Media of Bangladesh

Abstract

This research seeks to explore the importance of environmental reporting given in the print media of Bangladesh. Three newspaper in two languages; The Daily Prothom Alo and The Kaler Kantho in Bengali and The Daily Star in English language were selected as sample. Qualitative and quantitative methodology was employed find out the objectives of the research. The researcher tries to find the answers to the problem whether the print media gives importance to environmental reporting and how much awareness generated by these report. The data collected through content analysis and in-depth interview. The findings of content analysis indicate that these three newspapers do cover environmental issues but environmental reporting not given sufficient importance in all these three newspaper. The ways of prominence given for environmental issues in these three newspapers were very much different. The level of prominence identify by nature of the story, item, placement, editorial, space and trends. It has been investigate that The Daily Star newspaper covered the highest environmental articles by contract to other two newspapers in June 2020. They have given importance to various environments related subject matter. The Daily Prothom Alo also gives importance to environmental reporting and covered second highest environmental articles. The Kaler kantho newspaper covered less number of environmental news and given very small portions of the newspaper for environmental news coverage. But they have given importance to the published news regarding the news placement and special supplementary