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The Challenges Of Radio News Gathering And Reporting A Comparative Analysis Of The Federal Radio Corporation Of Nigeria (frcn)
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Radio
as a medium is becoming more popular in our society daily. The medium
is beneficial to both the educated and the uneducated in our society
more than any other medium; it has the capacity to reach millions of
Nigerians residing in the rural and urban areas.
Nsi (1997), radio
means simply reaching out to people from point to point through space
with sound waves or electromagnetic waves. Radio has been dominated by
the strong and almost universal half belief about its immense potency as
a means of social, cultural and ultimately political influence and
power. This belief about power of radio rest on a single and manifest
truth. It makes it possible for man to address an audience of hundreds
of millions.
Uyo (1987) argues that messages are symbolic products,
created and transmitted by radio to the public towards the fulfillment
of their functions to the society. However, news gathering is a major
challenge being faced by media practitioners - that is journalist in
Nigeria. These challenges impede on effectiveness of radio as a medium
of mass communication and journalist who are saddled with the
responsibility of radio news gathering. The success or realization of an
individual or a nation’s set goal is dependent on the policies legal
framework, political environment and leadership styles. From the
forgoing, it is quite obvious that radio reporting faces challenges
daily in news gathering, which however, affects the effectiveness and
efficiency of the medium. It also tends to outclass other medium in
terms of relative proximity to reality of what is happening than any
other media.
Although, radio remains the most preferred medium for
news amongst Nigerians, it is faced with the problems of gathering and
sourcing for news. News gathering is the primary function of a media
organization or a journalist as it were, which metamorphosed into
dissemination of news items after proper processing.
The radio as a
medium in mass communication has remained a consistent and strong medium
since its inception. It reaches more of the masses than other mass
media channels because of some of its characteristics. The researcher
therefore intends to delve into finding out the challenges and possibly
proffer solutions to these challenges in a comparative analysis.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research work seeks to find out the challenges faced by two radio news medium, the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Kaduna and Ray Power 100.5 Fm Jos in news gathering and reporting, and to also compare and contrast these challenges faced by the two medium. In the review of related literature, scholars in the area under review gave different views to news and news gathering. It was observed that news refers to accurate and timely happenings, discoveries, opinions, and matters ... Continue reading---
