Abstract:
The word development includes ideas such as economic, political, social, and cultural
concerns. Development journalism is the profession of gathering, writing, editing, publishing,
telecasting, or broadcasting information, facts and ideas about development activities. .Mass media
have significant impact not only on a country's development but also individuals development.. This
impact of media depends on the relevance of the content to be delivered. These contents are
expected to comprise education, information, entertainment and edutainment that are vital for
development. The most important reason to study development coverage in a newspaper is that
they sheer ubiquity. After the completion of internal war need of development in the country should
be improved This study compares the coverage of development issues in the selected newspapers in
Srilanka..Newspapers' coverage of development issues by using mixed method: both quantitative
and qualitative research methods with the aim of identifying the extent and quality of their coverage
of development issues through. The main importance of this study is that it will help create
awareness as to the extent to which the press gives for issues related to development. The focus of
the study was on only one government newspaper and one private newspaper namely Thinakaran
and Thinakkural and Veerakesari.(those are national dailies) and content and textual analysis as the
research methodology. Development theory and framing theory gives theoretical foundation for this
study.
