Business news coverage of India, before and after India's economic liberalization, by 'The Wall Street Journal', 'The New York Times' and two Indian newspapers: 'Financial Express' and 'The Economic Times'

This study examines business news coverage of India, before and after India's economic liberalization between 1988 and 1994 to find out how the media in developed and developing nations cover the process of economic reforms in this era of globalization. The study analyzes news stories from four newspapers— The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times from the United States, and Financial Express and The Economic Times from India.; The results of the study point that mean story length and prominence in the American newspapers decreased after the liberalization, whereas in Indian newspapers story length and prominence remained almost same in both the periods. This finding was in accordance with earlier studies that although number of international stories increased in the American newspapers the space devoted to them remained constant.; With regard to sources, American and Indian newspapers used Indian government officials as major news source.