PRECISION JOURNALISM AND SENSATIONALISM

This study seeked to: 1. Assess the elements of sensationalism in news reporting of daily sun and daily independent newspapers. 2. Find out the role of sensationalism in new journalism in the two newspapers studied. 3. Assess the various methods of precision journalism employed by the two newspapers. 4. Assess the importance of precision in modern journalism. 5. Assess whether sensational reporting ignites newspaper readership in the two newspapers.