A Comparative Study on News Flow in Mizoram Regional Dailies and Major Indian dailies

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the news flow in the dailies. Northeast India can be considered as regional minorities within the mainstream media. The study will be done in the light of the Macbride commission report and Shoemaker’s concept of comparing media patterns with demographic and geographic patterns. There are numerous studies on Northeast and media, moreover it reveals the misrepresentation and the stereotyping of Northeast as a violent prone area in the national media. But to the researcher’s knowledge, there are few comprehensive explanations of the coverage of the Northeast in the national Press and vice versa the nature of coverage in Mizoram dailies. The present study attempts this and content analysis will be employed as methodology. For this study, two Mizo newspapers i.e. Vanglaini and Newslink and two national newspapers i.e. The Hindu & The Times of India are selected. The sampling period is January - June 2022 and six composite week samples will be chosen for this study. This study will fill a huge gap in media research for the state of Mizoram.