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AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE USE OF BLOGS AND CITIZEN JOURNALISM MATERIALS AS NEWS SOURCES BY KADUNA BASED TELEVISION STATIONS
Abstract:
Information technology is making a very significant impact on peoples‟ lives and has revolutionised the television industry and specifically news production and dissemination processes. Availability of the internet broadband services on a wider scale and accessibility to those services by a large number of people using state of the art digital communication facilities such as internet enabled mobile phones, Iphone and Ipadetc, has turned the world into the phenomenal global village and brought information to users at the click of a button. Users now not only access information but they source for and disseminate it instantly through digital platforms such as blogs and user-generated contents provided by major broadcast stations that encourage audience to upload pictures and videos of latest breaking news into their websites by people that are privileged to be at the right place where news unfolds. This has not only tremendously enhanced television news coverage but at the same time raised ethical and legal issues of concern. This study attempted to examine this problem using Kaduna based television stations as case study. Survey and in-depth interview were used to generate the data. Census sampling technique was used tocapture the population of the study. Tabulation and simple percentage are used to analyse the data gathered. Findings of the study revealed that Kaduna based television journalists consider blogs and citizen journalists as biased due to lack of objectivity, fairness and accuracy in their news reportage, and that blogs and citizen journalists constitute important sources of breaking news and refusal by Nigerian television stations to use blogs and citizens journalism materials is not based on management or National Broadcasting Commission restrictions. The study concludes that blogs and citizens journalism are popular as information sources, their perceived inadequacy notwithstanding.The study recommends that television stations should identify blogs sites with track record of credibility and begin to patronize news worthy materials from them deemed beneficial to their target audiences. It also recommends that television stations should open user generated content hubs to explore materials being provided by citizen journalists for use in their news telecast. It also challenges trained journalists not to leave blogging exclusively to amateurs.
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE USE OF BLOGS AND CITIZEN JOURNALISM MATERIALS AS NEWS SOURCES BY KADUNA BASED TELEVISION STATIONS
