Content Analysis of the Times of India Delhi & Beijing Daily from March 2009 to June 2009 with May excluded. I did this research and analysis for my internship at Asian Media Information and Communication Center in Singapore.

1. Content Analysis
The Times of India Delhi
& Beijing Daily
Mengwei Deng
December 2009

3. Figures of March 2009

4. March 2009
Figure 1: Asian regional news articles spread in countries
and news sessions (n= 92)
Country/News Sessions Front City Nation Global Internationa
Page l
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.

5. Figure 2: Asian regional news sources (n= 92)
TN NYT* AFP Sunday ANI Reuters PTI AP* IANS
N * Times* *
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.

6. Figures of April 2009

7. April 2009
Figure 3: Asian regional news articles spread in countries and news
sessions (n= 87)
Country/News Sessions Front City Nation Global Internationa
Page l
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

8. Figure 4: Asian regional news sources (n= 87)
TNN AP* AFP* PTI NYT* ANI Reuters* IANS Sunday
Times*
NO: 44 13 4 10 4 1 5 1 5
Articles
*: Western News Agencies
8 news articles in March use quotes. 3 of them were quoted from Asian.

9. Figures of June 2009

10. 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.

11. Figure 6: Asian regional news sources (n= 88)
TNN Reuters AFP* AP* ANI PTI NYT* IANS
*
NO: 45 8 3 15 4 8 1 4
Articles
*: Western News Agencies
12 news articles in March use quotes. 9 of them were quoted from Asian.

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

13. Second,
Some articles related
to Pakistan and China
are biased.

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

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

17. From India to China…

20. Figures of March 2009

21. March 2009
Figure 1 & 2: Asian regional news articles spread in countries (n= 47)
NO./Countries Bangladesh DPRK India Japan Sri Kazakhstan South
Lanka 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.

22. Figure of April 2009

23. April 2009
Figure 3: Asian regional news articles spread in countries (n= 44)
NO./Countries DPRK Japan South Thailand Pakistan Indonesia Philippine India
Korea
NO. Articles 9 9 7 11 2 2 2 2
2 news articles in April use quotes. 1 of them was quoted from Asian.

24. Figures of June 2009

25. June 2009
Figure 4: Asian regional news articles spread in countries (n= 27)
NO./Countries South Pakistan DPRK Thailand Japan Afghanistan Indonesia
Korea
NO. Articles 4 3 11 1 5 2 1
13 news articles in June use quotes. 10 of them were quoted from Asian.

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

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

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

29. The End