TITLE:
Quality Assessment of Radio News in Afghanistan (BBC, Killid, Azadi, & Afghanistan)
AUTHORS:
Farid Ahamd Monib, Jamaluddin Qanet
KEYWORDS:
Radio Station, Quality, Radio News, Radio Report, Qualitative Content Analysis, Kabul, Afghanistan
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Journalism and Communication,
Vol.8 No.4,
December
4,
2020
ABSTRACT: This study identifies and evaluates the quality assessment of radio news in the country. To conduct this research, the researcher first posed the questions and objectives of the research and then, according to the nature of the work, used exploratory and applied research. The researcher consulted with professors from Al-Beroni and Kabul University to choose the research method and used quantitative method to collect information and qualitative content analysis method to analyze and interpret information. The researcher selected 4 half-hour news programs of Afghanistan, Killid, Azadi and BBC radios from the 6 months of news programs of the mentioned media as a sample population and after analyzing them with remarkable and interesting results acquired. BBC Radio follows all principles and standards of journalism and news reporting in radio, but the writing style of BBC Radio vocabulary is not simple and limited, so it is sometimes difficult for listeners to understand the news events or news programs. On the contrary, Radio Azadi’s writing style and reporting as well as presentation of news program is very simple, and listeners immediately can get the concept of news items. Independent and private radio stations follow development system as well as social responsibility theory of the media, but foreign media have their specific system of covering the events.