Newspapers Coverage of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: May - July  2018

Oluwaferanmi O. Adeyemo; Ene Comfort Obaje

Authors

Oluwaferanmi O. Adeyemo
Ene Comfort Obaje

Keywords:

internal displaced persons (IDPS), newspapers2019; coverage, prominence, vulnerability

Abstract

The objective of the study is to examine the extent to which newspapers reported the issue of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. The agenda-setting theory and the social responsibility theory formed the theoretical foundation to this study. The study adopted content analysis and the survey method, through interview to scrutinize six (6) Nigerian national newspapers-Daily Sun, Daily Times, Leadership, The Nation, Punch and Vanguard for a period of 3 months: May 1, 2018 to July 31, 2018. Coding sheet was used to code 552 editions of the newspapers within the 3-months period where 182 contents on IDPs were found and analyzed. Also, interview guide was employed to garner the view of six (6) communications and media experts. Findings presented through descriptive and inferential statistics revealed that the selected national newspapers mainly accorded low prominence to issue of IDPs through page placement stories. The coverage of major issues the selected newspapers reported about the IDPs was about the vulnerability of the IDPs. It was shown that coverage of selected newspapers as shown to have been varied geographically where North-East garnered the highest coverage, while the South-West had no coverage on IDPs situation.

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Newspapers Coverage of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: May - July 2018. (2020). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 20(A2), 21-27. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3088

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