Investigative Journalism and Scandal Reporting in the Nigerian Press

Yusha’u, Muhammad Jameel

doi:10.1080/02560054.2009.9653400

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“…Though there is no space here to address this, it is important to note that the absence of this kind of argument in Thisday newspaper reflects the difference in patterns of ownership in the culture of news reporting and analysis as between northern and southern Nigeria (see Yusha'u, 2009Yusha'u, , 2010a.…”

Section: Conspiracy Framementioning

confidence: 95%

News framing of the ‘Detroit Bomber’ in the Nigerian press

Yusha’u

2011

Global Media and Communication

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the world was greeted by the story of a young Nigerian who, according to the reports, attempted to destroy a US airliner to Detroit, Michigan. His name is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. This story was shocking not only to the outside world but also to Nigerians because of the background of the alleged perpetrator: he had received a sound education right from childhood, and had attended some of the best schools including University College London.A point of interest here is that Nigeria is a country that is regionally divided between the north and the south. The ownership of the media is predominantly southern (Oyovbaire, 2001;Yusha'u, 2010aYusha'u, , 2010b but with a handful of newspapers in the northern part of the country. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is from the northern city of Katsina. This raised a number of questions: how would the predominantly southern press, with predominantly Christian ownership, frame the story involving a Muslim terror suspect? How would a northern newspaper with a Muslim ownership frame the story? What are the implications of this story within the context of the 'global war on terrorism'? These are the questions that this paper would like to explore. Global media and the war on terrorAfter the attack on the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001, the Bush administration introduced the so-called 'war on terror' which 'has been offered by neoconservatives as a kind of long-term replacement for the Cold War' (Hammond, 2007: 59). Several scholars have conducted studies on the ways the global media have covered the war on terror. This includes Calebrese (2007), Pieterse (2009), El-Nawawy and Powers (2010) and Jayyusi (2007).At the local level within Nigeria the media (the press in particular) has developed similar modes of categorizing others as the global media. This is particularly so when it comes to the reporting of Islam and Muslims. There are numerous examples to illustrate

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Section: Conspiracy Framementioning

confidence: 95%

News framing of the ‘Detroit Bomber’ in the Nigerian press

Yusha’u

2011

Global Media and Communication

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“…Investigative journalism is another field of inquiry that deserves immediate attention in the context of journalism education in the country. It necessarily requires the exploration of information with the efforts of the concerned journalist, and the information so obtained must be of relevance to the general public (Waisbord, 2000;Yusha'u, 2009). It is an important pillar to ascertain the value of justice and bring out the difference between right and wrong, innocence and analysing the complete case under the supervision of the investigation from the journalist (Ettema & Glasser, 1988).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Journalism Education in India: The Widening Gap Between Research and Practice

Sinha

Basu

2020

Asia Pacific Media Educator

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This article is based on reviews of studies in the field of journalism education in India after the proliferation of the Internet, particularly after the year 2010. The journalism practices have undergone a significant change in the past two decades, with the enabling of new information technologies, resulting in increased feedback from the audiences as well as globalized education opportunities for the content creators. The article is based on the content analysis, using grounded theory as the qualitative research method, to identify various themes in journalism researches, from Indian universities during the same period. The implications of the results suggest that there is a wide gap between the research conducted in the educational institutions and the prevailing pattern in the journalism industry in the country.

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“…Together with these visible effects, media reporting has also had equally important indirect effects thanks to the role it plays in society ( [30], pp. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to results, clientelism is a feature of journalism practice and one of the factors that impedes the practice of investigative journalism. Other impediments include poor remuneration, bad working conditions, corruption within the media, and the relationship between publishers and politicians [19].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%