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Subject: Sociology × Author: Harjinder Singh × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Oped Pages of The Hindu : A Case Study
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Harjinder Singh; Sarabjeet Singh
    The oped pages of newspaper give better opportunity for investigation of issues and presentation of new idea. The oped columns discuss major current news events and anticipate development, columnists report longer and more explorative essays and research ideas. In the present study, effort was made to focus on oped Pages of The Hindu. The objective was to map the contents and comment qualitatively on the content. Three months oped pages of The Hindu were selected. All the publication were compiled and mapped according to the type of columns, name of the contributor, size and picture, the theme covered. Simple percentage method was used to compare to the contributions It included columns, Lead Articles, The Wednesday Interview, Yes, No, It’s complicated, Single file, Conceptual, From The Hindu archive, FAQ, Shelf Help, Abstract, Notebook, Act One and Data Point. In The Hindu, under ‘Single file’ theme political had maximum number of articles, in ‘Lead Articles’ were published under the theme ‘Social Society Reform’. It was followed by ‘Journalism’, ‘Environmental’ and ‘Political’, respectively. Under ‘Ground Zero’ maximum articles fall under the theme ‘Social Society Reform’ followed by ‘Environmental’. Conceptual columns had maximum articles from ‘Economics’. The Hindu Archives covered theme maximum on ‘Finance and Business’, followed by Political. Pictures and Bar Graphs also had contribution in oped columns.