ABSTRACT
This chapter examines trends in newspaper reports across three countries: India, Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) in a period spanning 1990–2014. Media practices of science news have often been criticised as mere propaganda, elitist, sensational, or denigrated as mere popularisation or vulgarisation. The medicalisation of science news hypothesis holds in the UK. The geographical diversity of reported news is reducing while focus on national science and its achievements, is increasing. The three newspapers focus much on local news: UK and UK events, Germany on German events and India on Indian events. There is emphasis on local science news, but Germany and the UK show high interest in Europe, North America and Asia. Germany also shows high interest in news from Africa; the UK shows less interest in African, Indian and German science news.
