Constructing Media Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Insights from Newspaper Coverage

Abstract

The study aims to identify how Bangladeshi newspapers disseminate the information, data,
message and also exams what types of contents are used in conjunction with news coverage for
framing recent pandemic crisis. A total of 4292 (The daily Star-1597, The Asian Age-1382, The
Sun-1313) news stories are analyzed to examine which have been published by media house on
the topic of recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis during 30 January to 8 April 2020 (70 days) in
Bangladesh. This study identifies 24 contents are used by the newspapers for covering pandemic
situation. In addition; this study shows comparison among the three daily newspapers on every
10-day basis. This exploratory finding would be a crucial pathway for media house, journalist,
administrators, civil society, and policymakers.