Asya Studies

Öz

Local media are important printed media that meet their local and regional readers compared to the national press and focus on the problems and problems of that region. It is in the process of news production in order to take place in the national press with the local press and to raise the problems of the public on local issues. Even in the local press, the ownership structure of the newspaper and the dominant ideological character of the newspaper are important in terms of content production. The powers of rulership can also apply the incentive to build an area of domination in the national press, as well as the news content of the local press channels that fall under the direction of power, and can be transformed accordingly. With this study, it was aimed to reveal the subjects of the news of the Khabar local newspaper, which is printed daily in Shiraz, Iran, and of which news are prioritized, and whether the news of the national press are used or not, to the first pages of the daily Khabar newspaper published in the city between 17.07 2018 and 21 July 2018. The content analysis was conducted. The research was limited to the Khabar newspaper. The reason for choosing Khabar newspaper as a sample in the research is that it is a local newspaper that produces news content in line with the Iranian regime. The second purpose of my research is; Whether the local newspaper located in the city of Shiraz, where social activity with economic indicators in Iran has gained momentum recently, is giving importance to the news subjects related to economic indicators or not. According to the results of the research, it was concluded that Khabar newspaper framed news on the political discourses of the government, the national actors carried newspaper headlines, and the newspaper mainly used the contents of the Iranian regime in the newspaper.