Nigerian Newspapers And The Coverage Of Development Issues: An Analysis Of This Day And Daily Trust Newspapers (January To December, 2011)

📄 Project Abstract

The study with the title: ``Nigerian Newspapers and the Coverage of Development Issues: An analysis of Thisday and Daily Trust Newspapers (January to December, 2011) has an aim of encouraging an adequate participation in the process of social change through the use of the newspaper as a medium of communication, which can be used to actualise the desired development objectives. This study has adopted a simple content analysis as its methodology, combining it with other techniques of research such as the interview technique, simple random sampling procedure and comparative analysis. In the study, which analysed a total of 104 editions has revealed, among others that Thisday, recorded 5% (5.41%) of development coverage and non-development matters constituted 95% (94.58%) i.e 5,154 and Daily Trust has 476 appearances represented by 8%(7.71%) of development, while non-development issues recorded 5,690 represented by 92% (92.28%). The study recommended among others that development matters s...