Kamran, Hassan2018-08-072018-08-072017https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/3158Supervised By: Madeha JavedThis study aims to investigate the level of Dependency of Pakistani Major Newspapers (The News, Dawn, and Express Tribune) on Foreign News Agency/ Networks. It has been done under theoretical schema of Media Imperialism Theory through a Qualitative Content Analysis of the above mentioned newspapers, where the international news stories publish in them are compared with the international news agencies and networks’ content during a period of four months (May to August 2016). It has been found that THE NEWS has reported most number of news stories (336) for this time period using national and international news agencies as compared to the other two newspapers TRIBUNE (114) and DAWN (138) respectively, however the dependency of THE NEWS on international news agencies was least among the three (only 19%), but mainly on national news agencies (81%). On the other hand, dependency of DAWN newspaper was found significantly higher (71%) on the international news agencies. TRIBUNE reported 60% of news using international news agencies while 40% using the national agencies. Their dependence on associated international & national news for front & back page stories is also significantly highenTheoretical schema of Media Imperialism TheoryInternational news agencies and networks’Thesis