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Coverage of Family Welfare Programme through press: a content analysis.


 The role of newspapers in bringing about societal awareness of issues is discussed and the importance of gaining the interest and sympathy of the press for the Family Welfare Programme is emphasized. Press interest can be assessed by analyzing the content of newspapers. A method for such an assessment is presented in the hope that regular analysis with feedback to the press will keep their interest in the Programme alive. 2 newspapers were analyzed for content related to Family Welfare in 31 issues during May 1978. The news was then classified by size of area it pertained to, type and display of news, whether or not it favored the government, involvement of persons in the family planning program and source of information. A flow chart which shows the methodology of this analysis is given. Another chart shows the percentage distribution of space covered by the above categories of news in the 2 papers. Some of the main findings of the analysis are: 1) both papers paid lowest attention to international events in comparison to State and National events; 2) in both papers, news with comments covered more space than did factual news.
