Abota, Arka (PhD)Daniel, Solomon2019-08-282023-11-082019-08-282023-11-082019-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/18886In this research, the emphasis was given to analyze the perception and practice of development journalism in Addis Lissan Newspaper in accordance with the fundamental principles of developmental journalism and to objectives articulated in the editorial policy. Mixed research Method approach particularly qualitative and quantitative research methods were applied to conduct the study and in-depth interview and quantitative content analysis research method was applied in order to gather the data. For contents analysis, the data was collected news stories about seven months from July 8th, 2017 to February 7th, 2018. In this way, a total number of 183 news stories were selected by using systematic random sampling techniques for quantitative content analysis and applied SPSS to analyze the data. According to the finding, this study showed that there is misconception and gap of knowledge among the higher officials of the media house, government bodies and a little number of journalists in order to implement DJ principles regarding the editorial policy. On the other hand, the medium has workable editorial policy that supported the developmental journalism reporting approach but it is a paradox in practice. In relation to the major development issues, the medium gave more attentions and focused dominantly on good governance and democracy that covers 43 news (23.5%) of 183 news stories. The medium almost ignores constructive criticism way of reporting and 145 news stories (79.2%) framed as non-constructive criticism of the government problem in relation with the development process. The major sources of the news were government officials press release or conference and meeting or event based that had coverage about 140 (76.5%) news stories. In this case, the medium relayed on day to day meetings or events, rather than promoting of long-term development process. On the other hand, the medium did not give consideration for news sources of ordinary people because it relays 4 (2.2%) news stories. Most of the news that released was informative role of news which is the good will of the government with 80 news (43.7%). The medium is being busy on reporting success-oriented stories rather than reporting the progressive problems of the plans and projects critically. Regarding to the coverage of the news, 95 (51.9%) of the news stories were reported the national issues and regional (Addis Ababa) issues are reported in the second stage. Because of the above findings, the application of development journalism in AAMMA particularly in Addis Lissan newspaper was going in contradiction with most commonly agreed up on principle of development journalism. Therefore, Addis Lissan newspaper is not correctly practicing development journalism in line with its principles.enJournalismeThesis