Focusing on three leading Indian newspapers published in New Delhi--"The Economic Times,""The Hindustan Times," and "Nav Bharat Times," a study examined the roles that journalists working for these newspapers assume, or want to assume, and how that may be related to development news production by their newspapers. A survey was distributed to all journalists working for the three newspapers (38 of 205 surveys were returned for an 18.5% response rate). Although factor analysis results indicated that having a role in the development process was considered important by respondents, there was relatively little development news in the three newspapers. Further, the development news stories tended to emphasize politics and politicians, used sources associated with the government and its agencies, and avoided sources who took critical views of the development process in India. (Two tables of data are included.) (MM)