Media Focus In Afghanistan News Coverage

This study explored the Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage to examine what categories of Afghanistan-related news received the largest amount of coverage during periods from 2010 to 2012. This study covered reports in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Daily Outlook Afghanistan, a national Afghan news outlet, as a sample within a period of three months over three years (June 2010, July 2011, and August 2012). The 147 news stories' headlines of the four news organizations were studied to find what categories (process: peace talks, negotiation, and economic development; conflict: violence and military action; and politics and policy: USA, Afghanistan, and NATO) received the most coverage on Afghanistan. The purpose of this study was to examine focal points in media coverage on Afghanistan.

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Associate Prof. Abdul Qahar Jawad has been a lecturer of the faculty of journalism at Kabul University since 2005. He has a master's degree in communications and public relations from Arkansas University of the USA and a bachelor degree in journalism from Kabul University. Jawad has nine years experience of teaching journalism.