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- Title
Challenges to Rural Journalism in Pakistan.
- Authors
Riaz, Saqib
- Abstract
This paper provides an insight of the miserable condition of the rural journalism in a country like Pakistan. People living in the rural areas of the country are playing a vital role in the national development but they are facing the feelings of deprivation and isolation. The local and regional media are passing through a great crisis while the rural journalists and correspondents are neither facilitated by the government nor supported by their media organizations. This study is based on a survey of a sample of 500 rural journalists working nation-wide in the nooks and corners of the country. It was found that the national mainstream newspapers do not give proper coverage to the issues and problems of the rural areas. The urban based mainstream newspapers and television channels give coverage to urban issues because of the market trend and the financial priorities. It may lead to the phenomenon of communication imbalance and the feelings of deprivation among the rural communities. It has been recommended that the media organizations should eradicate the division of rural and urban and they should give a reasonable coverage to the issues and problems of the rural communities.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; RURAL journalism; RURAL poor; JOURNALISTS; COMMUNITY newspapers -- Social aspects; SOCIAL history; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
FWU Journal of Social Sciences, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 2, p72
- ISSN
1995-1272
- Publication type
Article