NEWSPAPER READING HABITS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Through a questionnaire based survey, newspaper reading habits of the students of different faculties of university of Peshawar have been studied, in which a sample size of about 100 students have been used. This study demonstrates that majority of the students read Urdu newspapers, like Daily Mashriq, Ajj, Express and Jang. While, some also read English newspapers as well, like Daily Dawn and The Frontier Post etc. Moreover, the research reveals that; Political section of the newspaper is the most preferred section for the students. It also highlights that, majority portion of the respondents prefer home to read a newspaper, while some prefer to read online newspapers in the hostel or department library.