Özet:

City newspapers are the broadcasting bodies that communicate to the readers the developments in the social, cultural, economic and political fields related to the city. Political news in the publications of the city newspapers. The city media is trying to inform its target audience/readers about the developments in local politics during the election process. The city newspapers, especially during the election period, communicate political developments, political parties, political actors’ activities, assessments and statements to the readers by making them newspapers. Local political actors also reach the voters, the city media also informs the readers of the purposes of providing a communication and interaction between politics and the city media. This interaction affects the presentation of political news in the city media. This study examines the presentation in the city media of political news published in four local newspapers published in Elazığ during the June 24 General Elections. In the framework of the study, the publications of Fırat, Daily, Haberkent and Hükemiyet newspapers published daily in Elazığ were evaluated by the content analysis method on the general election process on 24 June. According to the findings obtained from the research, the Elazığ city newspapers in political election processes their publications, along with the factors derived from their own publication policies, ideologies, the distribution of the city structure in the city politics, the political parties in the city’s voting rates and the political trends of the readers; they determine the content and scope of their publications according to these parameters.

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