The Coverage of the 2022 Flood Disasters by Three Nigerian Daily Newspapers

Okoro, Hyacinth N and Agu, Charles C. and Onyeabor, James O. (2023) The Coverage of the 2022 Flood Disasters by Three Nigerian Daily Newspapers. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND TOURISM RESEARCH, 3 (2). pp. 51-59. ISSN 0794-5841

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Abstract

The researcher selected three national dailies, namely, The Punch, The Leadership and The Vanguard, to examine their coverage of the 2022 flood disasters in Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to know how often the selected dailies covered the 2022 flood stories/items in Nigeria, to find out how the selected dailies generated stories on the 2022 flood, to ascertain the directions of their coverage on the flood and examine the type of coverage given to the 2022 flood in the selected dailies. The content analysis method of research was used and the instruments for data collection were the three national dailies. The researcher covered 252 issues and got 41 items on flood during his study. The findings show that 19 of them were straight news, 11 were features, 4 were letter/opinion articles, and seven were editorial. This shows that the coverage was insufficient, and most of the coverage was carried out in the straight news format. Therefore, the researcher recommends greater coverage of the climate stories in a manner other than straight news format for more detailed insights.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences > Faculty of Education
Depositing User: Uchenna Eneogwe
Date Deposited: 12 Jun 2025 12:58
Last Modified: 12 Jun 2025 12:58
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/4825

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