COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMMUNITY & NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN LOCAL NEWS DISSEMINATION (A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THIS DAY AND EKWULOBIA NEWS)

ABSTRACT
This study compares how community and national newspapers disseminate local news. This study is meant to know between the two categories of newspaper which pays more attention and gives more prominence to local news dissemination. The purpose of this work therefore is to evaluate the roles newspaper play in fostering community and national newspaper. Meanwhile the researcher chose and studied from population all the Nigerian newspapers both community and national. One hundred and thirty nine (139) respondents as sample size using simple random sampling techniques. In order to achieve these objectives, a community newspaper (EKWULOBIA NEWS) and a national newspaper (THIS DAY) were content analyzed. The key variables in the newspaper which were identified, categorized, and coded were: News type, news placement and prominence in the newspapers within a certain period. The front, inside and back pages of newspapers were also content analyzed to determine the level of preference and importance attached to local news by community and national newspapers.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Title                                              
Certification                                       
Declaration                                       
Dedication                                       
Acknowledge                                       
Table of contents                                   
Abstract                                          

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1     Background information                           
1.2     Statement of problem                              
1.3    Research objectives                               
1.4     Research question                               
1.5     Significance of the study                           
1.6    Scope and limitation of the study                   
1.7    Operational definition of terms                       

CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1    Introduction                                    
2.2    History of print media in Nigeria               
2.3    Rational for local news dissemination                
2.4    Newspaper functions in society                       
2.5    Theoretical framework                           
2.6    summary of literature review                       
   
CHAPTER THREE
    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1    Introduction                                    
3.2    Research design                               
3.3    Population of study                               
3.4    Sample size                                   
3.5    sampling techniques                            
3.6    Development of instrument                       
3.7    Validity of the instrument                        
3.8    Reliability of the instrument                         
3.9    Method of data analysis                            
   
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
4.1    Introduction                                   
4.2    Data analysis and discussion                         

    CHAPTER FIVE
    SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1    Introduction                                      
5.2    Summary                                       
5.3    Conclusion                                    
5.4    Recommendation                               
5.5    Recommendation for further studies                
References                                    
Appendix A                                   
Appendix B (Questionnaires)