A STUDY OF MEDIA PORTRAYAL OF ATHLETES

Abstract

The present study is comparative in nature, based on a quantitative content analysis of all the sports
news and articles that covers games and sports during Commonwealth Games 2018 in two daily Hindi
newspaper of India.. The names of daily newspapers are Dainik Bhaskar, and Dainik Jagran .The data
was collected for entire event days and five days before starting the event and five days after completion
of event were taken. The commonwealth games 2018 lasted for 10 days so data collection was made
for 20 days (five days prior and five days post event).The results shows that There is significant
difference in scores of Individual sports and Team sports news in Hindi Media Portrayal in
Commonwealth games2018.