Abstract
This research explains the reporting style of two newspapers of similar news items. It is related to the headlines styles of reporting in print media. Print media plays very strong role in present era, it’s very important to know how media reveal same news in different point of views. This research paper investigates the news headlines through critical discourse analysis, of 2 daily Urdu newspapers correspondingly from First April to 7th April 2020. In this research paper COVID19 (Corona virus) news headlines were examine in two Urdu Newspapers Daily Jang newspaper and daily Express Newspaper. Newspapers of one week were examined for this research. The Daily Jang based in Karachi. Since 1939 is the oldest newspaper of Pakistan and continuously in publication. The Daily Jang newspaper is published by the Jang Group of Newspapers. The Daily Express is one of Pakistan's most broadly circulated Urdu Newspapers. Through Critical Discourse Analysis it was analyzed that the headlines in both the newspapers have different style of text, meaning and ideology because Jang and Express Newspapers have much difference in polices and in ideology.
Highlights
The beginning of year 2020 has put the entire world in a problem like a war against a pandemic
The objective of this research is to find out the different demonstration of the same news in two Urdu newspapers headlines, the data was analyzed through Van Dijk’s method of media text analysis of critical discourse analysis and the headlines were categorized according to their types
News coverage related to COVID 19 is different in both the newspapers
Summary
The beginning of year 2020 has put the entire world in a problem like a war against a pandemic. On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) established that a novel corona virus was the reason of a respiratory illness in a group of individuals in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, it was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019. On 2 March the fifth case was reported, of a 45-year-old woman from Gilgit-Baltistan, who had too travelled from Iran. The virus reached Pakistan on 26 February 2020. It was known when two cases were recorded in Pakistan, a student of Karachi University in Karachi returned from Iran and one more person in the Islamabad. On 18 March 2020, cases had been recorded in all four provinces of Pakistan. During 17 June, each region in Pakistan had recorded at least one confirmed case of COVID-19. The chief focal point of this study is to comprehend and assess the reporting of COVID- 19 news in two Urdu Newspapers
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