Former PU scholar gets patent for ‘newspaper analysis scale’
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Former PU scholar gets patent for ‘newspaper analysis scale’

Hindustan Times  

Mukesh Kumar, former research scholar at the School of Communication Studies, Panjab University, has received a patent for a ‘scale’ for analysing newspapers. Mukesh Kumar is presently an assistant professor in the department of journalism and mass communication at Maulana Mazharul Haque Arabic and Persian University, Patna. The Indian government’s patent office has issued a patent certificate for his research, the “Digital Scale for Newspaper Content Analysis”. Kumar has analysed newspaper content from 38 small newspapers across 19 Indian states using this scale, covering publications from regions as diverse as Jammu & Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Daman & Diu, and Assam using this scale.” Kumar, a senior research fellow of the University Grants Commission, earned his doctoral degree with a dissertation titled, “Local Media in the Global Scenario: A Content Analysis of Small Hindi Newspapers in India” at PU in 2020.

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