The purpose of this study is to analyze the coverage of dalit issues in Kannada newspaper. This research proposes to know the major categories published in different newspapers, to examine the space given to dalit issues and to find out how dalits are portrayed in newspaper. The primary data was collected through the Content analyses method. The study included two newspapers Vijayavani and Vijayakarnataka for the period of three month i.e. January to March 2016. The newspapers were selected randomly on the basis of their highest circulation. The total sample size of the study is 90 issues, 45 issues from each newspaper. The findings of the study showed that the newspapers are giving more space to the political news and the advertisements. While comparing the selected newspaper were given less space to the dalit issues than other categories.
