REPORTERS RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE URBAN

REPORTERS RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE URBAN RURAL NEWS IMBALANCES IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER

ABSTRACT

Academic writings are replete with studies on news imbalance. So much have been said about news imbalance in the international scenes. However, by writing this project, the researcher intends to look beyond the imbalance to the root cause. It is hoped that the information contained in this project will go a longway to correct the persistent problem of urban – rural news imbalance in Nigerian newspaper. Consequently, chapter one introduce this study as well as the theoretical frame work on which the study is based. In chapter two, the researcher gives an in-depth review of the works and studies done by the urban – rural imbalance. Chapter three simply states the method of study used to conduct t he study. Chapter four and five presented and analysed the data. Besides, the researcher drew some conclusions from the data presented and make appropriate recommendation.