Abstract:
This study attempts to analyze the representation of children, women, elderly and peoples with disability
of society in Radio Fana Broadcasting Corporate news stories. In order to attain the major objectives, the
study has raised major research questions related to the predominant types of 90-minutesMiiltooWaarii
news and issues that are frequently covered by the news stories; how and to what extent the selected news
stories have represented the Children, women, elderly and peoples with disability in its news. To
undertake the assignment, representation theory is employed. Both quantitative and qualitative
approaches were used to analyze the data and cross sectional research designs is used.Both simple
random sampling specifically lottery method of sampling and purposive sampling were used.
Hence, news content analysis was the main method of analysis. In-depth interviews were also made with
six people who were directly related to the news stories, i.e. news stories coordinators of the newsroom,
producers, and journalists of the news stories. The result gained from both news content analysis and
in-depth interviews confirmed that marginalized group society concerning issues have got a little
coverage in 90-minutes miiltoowaarii news stories. Therefore, the extent of coverage and how
marginalized group society news represented in Radio fana of the 90 minutes MiiltooWaariiis
not at a good level. The data gained from news content analysis reveal that Child issues only
contained 88(2%),Women 105(3%), Elderly news 75 (2%) & lastly peoples with disabilities
news 56(1%), in 90-minutes miiltoo waarii news stories.
Almost all informants of Fana Radio also realized that marginalized groups' society(MGS)news was
predominantly underrepresented in their news stories. Additionally, the informant mentioned the three
main reasons for not significantly covering this society;Journalists of 90-minutes miiltoo waarii deosn‟t
analyzed the running 90-minutes Miiltoo Waarii news contents to identify as professional journalists are
represented all news in a balanced way; lack of journalists interest to do news on these people
purposefully than keeping news events which may occur related to marginalized group society; lack of
focus/attention in reporting news about marginalized group society. Based on the findings, some
recommendations for action were forwarded.
