SOURCED CREDIBILITY OF INTERNET BASED NEWS STORIES ORANGE FM, AKURE ABSTRACT This study investigates the Sourced Credibility of Internet Based News Stories on Orange FM, Akure. These sources include mainstream (vanguardnewspaper.com, BBC.com, Punchnewspaper.com, NAN.com etc), independent (thedrudgereport.com, axisoflogic.com), and index-type (news.google.com, yahoo.news.com) websites. 210 news bulletins were studied. Content Analysis and Survey Research Methods were utilized in order to know...
Abstract This study the role of the media in the management of environmental health issues in makurdi Benue state, was designed to assess the role of the media in management of environmental health issues in Benue state. Relevant literature were reviewed on Solid Waste, Public Health, Attitude Change and Media. The survey research design was adopted with questionnaire used as data collection instrument. Result from the finding shows that the media has increase knowledge and change perception ...
ABSTRACT The study seeks to examine the role of electronic media in informing women on vocational skills acquisition; a case study of Gwale Local Government Area of Kano State. The study is set to achieve the three objectives of which include; to find out the level of awareness of vocational skills acquisition programs among media exposed women, to find out how media exposed women utilize vocational skills information and to identify any challenges media exposed women face in the utilization...
ABSTRACT This study examined the adoption of digital distribution channels among Nigerian Newspapers. The study covers both online and offline newspapers. In carrying out this research, 50 newspapers’ website were examined, using the content analysis method. The findings indicate that the newspapers adopted 22 out of 24 digital distribution channels available online and offline. Most of newspaper websites examined adopted social media distribution channel with Facebook as the most extensive...
ABSTRACT The concept of customer satisfaction occupies a central position in marketing thought and practice. Satisfaction is a major outcome of marketing activity and serves to link processes culminating in purchase and consumption with post-purchase phenomena such as attitude change, repeat purchase, and brand loyalty. Customer satisfaction has been a subject of great interest to organizations and researchers alike. The principal objective of organizations is to maximize profits and to minim...
THE EFFECTS OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS ON NEWSPAPER READERSHIP AMONG NIGERIAN STUDENTS: A STUDY OF RUGIPO STUDENTS ABSTRACT The issue of newspaper readership is a major issue that newspaper publishers are daily concerned with because the end point of all effort put into the production of dailies is that the target audience should purchase and read it, the former being of much more interest to the publishers. Over the years there has been several academic debates as t...
The work of this research is divided into five (5) chapters. First chapter dealt with the introduction of the course, statement of the problem, aims and objectives. Research questions were drawn, significance, scope and limitation as well as definition of Key terms are provided. Chapter Two (2) of the work reviewed the literature on Mass Communication, Mass Media and broadcast media from various work of different scholars on the term Mass Communication. Theoretical frame work (social cate...
It is no doubt that the kind of frame the media attach to a particular story, will invariably influence the way the public understand and react to that event. The newspapers no doubt play a crucial role in determining the way the public view this Fulani herdsmen-famers saga inNigeria. Nevertheless, this research work investigates how the four purposively selected Nigerian dailies (The Guardian, The Sun, The Nation and Vanguard) framed the Fulani herdsmen-famers crisis in Nigeria, with a vie...
ABSTRACT This study is an Assessment of CRBC’s Educational Broadcasting in Nigeria: A Study of Calabar South Local Government Area. The study adopted three research techniques, survey design, purposeful sampling procedure and simple percentage to analyze the data. It was found out that CRBC’s educational broadcasting programmes satisfied the educational yearning and aspiration of 66.5% respondents, the programme were beneficial to its audience and the content was relevant to educational...
ABSTRACT This inquiry examined theEffect of Social Networks on the Behaviour of Secondary School Students in Mercy Model Schools, Ilaporu-Ijebu of Ogun State, Nigeria. It investigated the Risk that comes with use of Social Network on the Secondary School Students in Mercy Model Schools. The study made use of descriptive survey research. The population consisted of all the students in Mercy Model Schools which preliminary investigation put at 200 students. The sample size is comprised of 96 ...
Background of Study The world in which we live today is a world dominated by technology. We may not realize it but we now live in a world where our live are shaped and reshaped by technology. One area where technology has made much impact in journalism practice in Nigeria, is the area of communication and, precisely, communicates to a heterogeneous, undifferentiated, mass audience. Technology advancement in communication has brought about fundamental shift in human society and created chang...
An overview The growth and development of any establishment or institution especially a local government outfit are largely dependent on the people’s notion and attitude towards it. Hence, public relation as a management tool plays a relevant part in enhancing good relationship between an organization and its public as well as building a good image for the establishment. It is with these thoughts that the research was carried out on the topic ‘’Nigerian workers perception of the Relev...
ABSTRACT This study focused on the adoption and usage of new media technologies in broadcast station using NTA Makurdi and Radio Benue as a study. The survey methodology was used for the study in which questionnaires were distributed to 60 respondents in both NTA and Radio Benue with 57 or 94% dully filled and returned. The findings revealed that although new media is very significant to programming in Broadcast stations, it usage level in both NTA and Radio Benue is very low. The study howe...
ABSTRACT It seems as if Traditional media which had been channels used as means of preserving the cultures of people in the communities are no longer effective. Hence, this study is aimed at measuring the impact of Digital media as the new media that had evolved to improve and complement the Traditional media. The need to evaluate the impact of Digital media technologies on cultural conception and Traditional media in Bende L.G.A. of Abia state, Nigeria is the concern of this study, such that...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study According to carter and broom (2004, p.12) public relations is the management function that identifies, establishes and maintains mutually beneficial relationships between an organization and its publics upon whom its success depends. It’s important to know that life and success of any organization can only be ensured and sustained through effective mobilization of both the internal and external publics of the organization. This t...