TY - JOUR TT - SPACE FOR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION/OPINION PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS - A CRITICAL STUDY AU - Guchhait, Arup AU - Basu, Tapati AU - Kanti Ghara, Tushar PY - 2017 DA - July JF - Intermedia International E-journal PB - İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2149-3669 SP - 1 EP - 13 VL - 4 IS - 6 N2 - Media has an enormous role in communicating information in various kind. Particularly, the print media is serving society strongly with their evolution in various fields including technological aspects. Within the steep competition each media wants to hold theirown audience with continuous innovative items. Environment is such a contemporary subject which has a fair demand. So the space is so valuable. In this study, the status of the English and the Bengali dailies in connection with environmental journalism, especially the space provided for public contribution/opinion has been scrutinized. This may be concluded that though the limited space has been allotted for public contribution/opinion by the newspapers, English dailies comparatively give maximum importance the public opinion, especially the Telegraph. Key Words: newspaper, opinion, space UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/intermedia/issue//375396 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/399700 ER -