The Influence of Newspaper Ownership on the Objectivity of the Coverage of Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Election

Mordi, Frederick Ojore; Ogbu, Silk Ugwu

doi:10.19044/esj.2017.v13n32p286

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“…The newspaper pages that the APC used in leveraging their propaganda devices are professionally seen as more strategic than the ones used by the PDP (Lim, 2017; Mordi & Ogbu, 2017; Obukoadata, 2018). Whether this was deliberate or not, the import is that the front page news items, back page, and opinion editorials are more likely to influence the reading public than the inside pages (which might not even be seen or read) and center spread, although page-3 had equal strategic value.…”

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“…Ownership is key to how newspapers cover stories during electioneering campaigns. Mordi and Ogbu (2017) examine the “impact of politician-businessperson-owned (PBO) newspapers on the objectivity of the reportage of the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria, by some selected media organizations” in a bid to establish their level of objectivity in terms of coverage of political events and political parties as well as their level of compliance with professional ethical considerations. The paper found out that in the Nigerian context, media owners, and not the editors, appear to be the gatekeepers.…”

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Exploration Into Usage, Frequency, and Prominence of Propaganda Devices by Political Parties in Nigerian Newspapers During the 2019 Electioneering Campaigns

Obukoadata,

Okon,

Obogo

2023

Newspaper Research Journal

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The study explored the usage, frequency and prominence of placements of propaganda devices by All Progressives Congress and People’s Democratic Party in select Nigerian newspapers during the 2019 electioneering campaigns. Content analysis design was used. Sample size of 288 was drawn from a population of 1,096 daily and weekly editions of four national newspapers in Nigeria between July 2018 and March 2019. Systematic sampling technique and intercoder reliability of 92% were used. The study found that propaganda devices were effectively used by political parties with grave implications for the processes of political communications in Nigeria. The most used propaganda devices were name-calling and bandwagon while the least used was transfer. These appeared more daily, placed in the front and inside pages, and helped to advance the tenets of agenda-setting and propaganda theories. It concluded that the usage, frequency, and prominence of placements of propaganda devices are effectually important in the entire process of electioneering, coverage, and mobilization, but recommended a professional use of propaganda to mitigate its reference as a negative tool of communication.

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Exploration Into Usage, Frequency, and Prominence of Propaganda Devices by Political Parties in Nigerian Newspapers During the 2019 Electioneering Campaigns

Obukoadata,

Okon,

Obogo

2023

Newspaper Research Journal

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“…This study adopted a one-tiered approach in its methodology consisting of a quantitative content analysis. Mordi and Ogbu, (2017) defines content analysis as a research technique used for the objective, systematic and quantitative explanation of the manifest content of communication encounters. This design is justified by its capability to streamline the frames within which the cult related activities were reported.…”

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Newspaper Reportage of Cult Related Activities in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State

Queen Nneka Alikor

2023

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The mass media are formidable forces in creating social realities in conflict situations and represent selectively these realities through the process of news framing. Within this context, this study examines newspaper reportage of cult related activities in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The objectives of the study are to determine the degree of prominence given to the cult related stories in Emohua Local Government Area, and to ascertain how cult related stories are being framed and reported by Nigerian newspapers. The study anchors on the theoretical premise of Media Framing Theory. The study employs quantitative content analysis. The population of this study is limited to the publications of three national newspapers in Nigeria; The Punch, The Guardian and The Nation. The period covered is from June 1st 2021 to April 30th 2022. Within these eleven months, these newspapers had three hundred and thirty five (335) publications apiece making a total of one thousand and five (1005) publications. Purposive sampling was employs while the unit of analysis for this study consisted of news stories, editorials, advertorials, columns/opinions, interviews, feature stories and others focusing on cultism as published by the three newspapers being studied. These newspapers were chosen due to their ownership structure, area of coverage and frequency of publication. The findings reveal that cult related stories were not given prominence as was supposed to be. The study concludes that one challenge that will continue to confront the journalist as well as the media in general is the level of attention to be given to societal violence. The study recommends that newspaper reports should pay more attention to the issue of cultism in Emohua Local Government Area by giving more prominence to it and propel societal action against it.

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“…A similar study byMordi, and Ogbu (2017) examined The Influence of Newspaper Ownership on the Objectivity of Coverage of Nigeria's 2015…”

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What is killing newspapers in Lagos state: the internet or dwindling economy?

Ogbonna¹

2020

CIJDS

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Newspapers in Switzerland and the Netherlands, have lost half of their classified adverts to the internet as reflected in an article titled: Who killed the Newspaper? in The Economist of April 24, 2006. However, in recent time, the Nigerian economy has faced a major decline that has affected the existence of newspapers. The marriage of newspapers to the web has not yet proved financially successful for the older medium (Baran, 2012). Thus, this paper examined the impact of economic recession and the internet on newspapers in Nigeria. Study adopted the survey research, sampling four hundred staff of selected newspapers and anchored on the political economy theory. Study found that seven out of ten staff of the four newspapers representing 77.4% said their daily activities are affected by the current economic recession; five out of ten staff of the four newspaper houses representing 47.3% strongly agreed that the internet has effect on the readership of printed newspaper, and four out of ten sampled representing 39.5% said that their management performed fairly during the period. It is therefore recommended that for newspaper houses to survive recession, they should relate with employees and motivate them to give their best. KEYWORDS: Print media/ownership, Political economy theory, Economic recession, Internet (Online) newspaper.

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The Influence of Newspaper Ownership on the Objectivity of the Coverage of Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Election

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Exploration Into Usage, Frequency, and Prominence of Propaganda Devices by Political Parties in Nigerian Newspapers During the 2019 Electioneering Campaigns

Exploration Into Usage, Frequency, and Prominence of Propaganda Devices by Political Parties in Nigerian Newspapers During the 2019 Electioneering Campaigns

Newspaper Reportage of Cult Related Activities in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State

What is killing newspapers in Lagos state: the internet or dwindling economy?

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