Yes, you can cite it. Generally people do that if they want to talk about a case example, on the prevalence of a problem, or if they want to say something about how the media reports on a topic.

Yes!

It helps in positioning the importance of the issue.

For example, one of my friends cited many reports including some newspaper stuff to argue why workplace loneliness is an important phenomenon to study.

Similarly another collegue in his study on tobacco industry cited newspaper reports to highlight the illeffects of smoking.

Regards,

What kind of newspaper? It's important.

@Jale Minibas-Poussard, I want to add a reputed newspaper ("The Times of India") repot. The report was published in 2015.

I don’t think this is advisable.

If corrections are warranted, they’re published separately. If you cite a blog post, it can be changed, or even deleted. This can pose serious problems like hindering reproducing results.

@ambrish sir, corrections/ comments are made in reputed journals also.

How will you check the pluralism of the newspaper report? Any cited article/work must be scientifically verified, whereas, any report might be a probable study which might further require a validation.

I have to cite a general report, not a technical result.

For example,

"40% of women aged between 40-45 years, are suffering from Breast cancer "- a report in TOI. This "Report" motivated me to proceed my research in "early detection of Breast cancer".

Is this really requires citation?

How can I claim "40% of women aged between 40-45 years, are suffering from Breast cancer " without any proper reference.?

Is there another report such as WHO reports?

Newspaper will publish some facts with proper references. I suggest to follow directly the sources from where the news has been reported.

Right sir.

Thank you sir.

You can cite Newspaper stories in the research work providing proper citations

Yes you can add the newspaper matters with proper citations and references... it substantiate your reserach....

When I did it on a lower level in the university I was badly punished by the professor. Later after the PhD I have done it like in the attached paper:

Can we cite newspaper for the research paper ???