Content AnalysisThe Times of India Delhi & Beijing Daily

Mengwei Deng

December 2009

Figures of March 2009

March 2009 Figure 1: Asian regional news articles spread in countries and news sessions (n= 92)

Country/News Sessions Front Page

City Nation Global International

Pakistan 4 6 12

Bangladesh 1 3

India 2 6 7 3

Afghanistan 1 2

China* 2 2 20 1

Malaysia 3

Sri Lanka 2 1 3

South Korea 2

Nepal 2

Japan 3

Taiwan 1

Bhutan 1

North Korea 3

*: Hong Kong is included in China.

Figure 2: Asian regional news sources (n= 92)

TNN

NYT* AFP*

Sunday Times*

ANI Reuters*

PTI AP* IANS

NO. Articles: 45 8 6 3 1 9 12 6 2

*: Western News Agencies

39 news articles in March use quotes. 27 of them were quoted from Asian.

Figures of April 2009

April 2009

Figure 3: Asian regional news articles spread in countries and news sessions (n= 87)

Country/News Sessions Front Page

City Nation Global International

China 3 8

Pakistan 7 10 30

India 1 4 2

North Korea 1 4

South Korea 2

Malaysia 2

Thailand 1 1

Sri Lanka 1 4 3

Japan 1 1

Afghanistan 1

Figure 4: Asian regional news sources (n= 87)

TNN AP* AFP* PTI NYT* ANI Reuters* IANS Sunday Times*

NO: Articles

44 13 4 10 4 1 5 1 5

*: Western News Agencies

8 news articles in March use quotes. 3 of them were quoted from Asian.

Figures of June 2009

June 2009

Figure 5: Asian regional news articles spread in countries and news sessions (n= 88)

Country/News Sessions Front Page Nation Global International

Pakistan 2 9 20

Sri Lanka 2 6

North Korea 12

China* 2 7 13

Thailand 1

Nepal 2

India 1 5 1

Japan 2

South Korea 1

Taiwan 1

Afghanistan 1

*: Hong Kong is included in China.

Figure 6: Asian regional news sources (n= 88)

TNN Reuters*

AFP* AP* ANI PTI NYT* IANS

NO: Articles

45 8 3 15 4 8 1 4

*: Western News Agencies

12 news articles in March use quotes. 9 of them were quoted from Asian.

First,

Asian regional news in the Times of India Delhi are heavily given to Pakistan and China.

Second,

Some articles related to Pakistan and China are biased.

Third,

News articles related to North Korea are mostly written by western news agencies.

Fourth,

News articles related to other Asian countries beside India’s neighbors mostly use news sources from western news agencies.

From India to China…

Figures of March 2009

March 2009 Figure 1 & 2: Asian regional news articles spread in countries (n= 47)

NO./Countries Bangladesh DPRK India Japan Sri Lanka

Kazakhstan South Korea

NO. Articles 4 10 1 12 2 1 3

NO./Countries Afghanistan Indonesia Philippines Pakistan Thailand China Malaysia

NO. Articles 1 2 1 5 2 1 2

7 news articles in March use quotes. All of them were quoted from Asian.

Figure of April 2009

April 2009

Figure 3: Asian regional news articles spread in countries (n= 44)

NO./Countries DPRK Japan South Korea

Thailand Pakistan Indonesia Philippine India

NO. Articles 9 9 7 11 2 2 2 2

2 news articles in April use quotes. 1 of them was quoted from Asian.

Figures of June 2009

June 2009

Figure 4: Asian regional news articles spread in countries (n= 27)

NO./Countries South Korea

Pakistan DPRK Thailand Japan Afghanistan Indonesia

NO. Articles 4 3 11 1 5 2 1

13 news articles in June use quotes. 10 of them were quoted from Asian.

First,

All Asian regional news appeared on Beijing Daily in this selected period was using news sources from Xinhua News Agency.

Second,

There are totally 70 news articles related to DPRK, Japan or South Korea, counting for about 60% of all the Asian regional news.

Third,

News related to Thailand appeared in April 2009 11 times out of 44 Asian regional news, counting 25%.

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