Studying of structure and content of local press from perspective of Professional and developmental Principles of journalism(Case Study: Ardabil Province Press)

The essential purpose of this research is Recognition of Ardabil province Press from perspective of structural and developmental Principles of journalism.Theoretical framework of current research is based on the agenda-setting theory and structural principles of journalism and development journalism. In this research, is used the quantitative content analysis method. All encoded contents, is 1589 content which is selected from five weekly Ardabil Province during 2018- 2017. This research shows that the most popular style in press of Ardabil province is news style. The most contents of the Ardabil press are non-productive and most used source is related to internal news agency. Also a lot of contents are without citing any source. The largest share among all subjects is allocated to the coverage of Ardabil Province events and news and after that is national news. Developmental news and contents have a very small part and regardless to the development issues are the most obvious points in this research. It can be said that Ardabil Press in context of structural journalism principles, sometimes successful and sometimes not. Also in the field of development journalism, have not the considering function.