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ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 COVERAGE IN BANGLADESH NEWS MEDIA USING TOPIC MODELLING
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Noakhali Science and Technology University
Published InInternational Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology
Year2020
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Abstract
Coronavirus Disease-2019, commonly known as COVID-19, originated from China has spread all over the globe including Bangladesh.News media of this country have been reporting both local and global news about the spread of COVID-19 since January 2020.Among news media, newspaper plays an important role to establish communication among health authorities, local government and people in risk issues like COVID-19.In this study, we have collected Bangladesh newspaper articles dated from 01 January 2020 to 30 April 2020 and have analyzed their coverage of COVID-19 applying topicmodelling technique.The median value of presence rate of daily COVID-19 related articles is increased from 4.2% to 67.5% after confirmed cases in Bangladesh.Newspaper has frequently reported about the spread of COVID-19 (number of tests, cases, deaths…
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