PRESS COVERAGE OF GOVERNOR UDOM’S EMMANUEL ADMINISTRATION

A study on press coverage of Governor Udom’s Emmanuel Administration on a Comparative Study of the Punch and the Global Concord from June 2015 to June 2016 was carried out, in order to find out the extent to which press coverage has so far be done in the democratic set up. The study’s design was the content analysis. The study’s population was 280 and a sample of 140 was determined from the study’s through the sample random sampling procedure study’s findings revealed that only the Global Concord newspaper exhibit its journalistic approach to the said coverage and the coverage of Udom’s Emmanuel administration was not done effectively, it is on that process of findings that this study recommended that newspaper publishers and operators should ensure that their newspapers disseminates basic information. Then newspaper houses should be able to assign journalist to cover reports unbiased on administration activities of government then ownership pattern should be discouraged and coverage of governor Udom’s Emmanuel administration should be covered to the rural areas.