Browsing by Author "Santas, Tsegyu"

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    Dominant Variables in News Writing and Reporting and the Problem of their Attainment
    (Ahmadu Bello University Press Limited, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria, 2018) Udende, Patrick; Akpede, Kaior; Santas, Tsegyu; Abubakar, Ibrahim
    In the final analysis, readers are expected to: a. Define the concepts of news, news writing and reporting; b. Identify news values; c. Explain journalism principles and fundamental factors that constrain reporters at work; d. Discuss the relationship between professional ideals and daily practice in journalism.
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    Election Coverage and Safety of Journalists in Nigeria
    (Ahmadu Bello University Press, 2020) Santas, Tsegyu; Udende, Patrick
    The upsurge of coordinated attacks on journalists while covering elections and other crucial assignments are becoming normal around the globe. And this raises serious questions to the safety of journalists in Nigeria today. This chapter examined this issue with a view to drawing the attention of the government to evolve measures to contain this trend before the situation escalates beyond control.
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    Newspaper framing of oversight function of the Nigerian Senate
    (Nasarawa Journal of Multimedia and Communication Studies, 2018-12) Udende, Patrick; Santas, Tsegyu
    This study is a content analytical study of oversight functions of the Nigerian Senate. Textual analysis was adopted as method of the study. This covers a three-year period between 2012 and 2014. Anchored on framing theory, the study purposively sampled two Nigerian dailies namely The Nation and Thisday .Findings showed that the newspapers use different patterns in framing news stories but some of the frames are not favourable to the Nigerian Senate. The study concluded that some frames used are skewed to demean the Senate. Based on findings, the study recommended that the Senate should re-examine its conduct and responsibly discharge its oversight function so as to be favourably reported in the newspapers irrespective of types of frames newspapers use..