Abstract:
This research seeks to explore the importance of environmental reporting given in the print
media of Bangladesh. Three newspaper in two languages; The Daily Prothom Alo and The Kaler
Kantho in Bengali and The Daily Star in English language were selected as sample. Qualitative
and quantitative methodology was employed find out the objectives of the research. The
researcher tries to find the answers to the problem whether the print media gives importance to
environmental reporting and how much awareness generated by these report. The data collected
through content analysis and in-depth interview. The findings of content analysis indicate that
these three newspapers do cover environmental issues but environmental reporting not given
sufficient importance in all these three newspaper. The ways of prominence given for
environmental issues in these three newspapers were very much different. The level of
prominence identify by nature of the story, item, placement, editorial, space and trends. It has
been investigate that The Daily Star newspaper covered the highest environmental articles by
contract to other two newspapers in June 2020. They have given importance to various
environments related subject matter. The Daily Prothom Alo also gives importance to
environmental reporting and covered second highest environmental articles. The Kaler kantho
newspaper covered less number of environmental news and given very small portions of the
newspaper for environmental news coverage. But they have given importance to the published
news regarding the news placement and special supplementary
