ABSTRACT
Academic writings are replete with studies on news imbalance. So much have been said about news imbalance in the international scenes.However, by writing this project, the researcher intends to look beyond the imbalance to the root cause.
It is hoped that the information contained in this project will go a longway to correct the persistent problem of urban – rural news imbalance in Nigerian newspaper.
Consequently, chapter one introduce this study as well as the theoretical frame work on which the study is based.
In chapter two, the researcher gives an in-depth review of the works and studies done by the urban – rural imbalance.
Chapter three simply states the method of study used to conduct t he study.
Chapter four and five presented and analysed the data. Besides, the researcher drew some conclusions from the data presented and make appropriate recommendation.
TABLE OF CONTENT
COVER PAGE ITITLE PAGE II
APPROVAL PAGE III
DEDICATION IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT V
ABSTRACT VI
TABLE OF CONTENT VII
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM 8
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 9
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 10
1.5 THEORETICAL FRAME WORK 11
1.6 RESEARCH QUESTION 13
1.7 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS 14
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW 15
2.1 GATE KEEPING STUDIES 15
2.2 STUDIES ON RURAL -REPRESENTATION IN NEWSPAPERS 20
2.3 STUDIES SHOWING IMBALANCE WITHIN - A COUNTRY. 21
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY 28
3.1 RESEARCH METHOD 28
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN 28
3.3 SAMPLING TECHNIQUES 30
3.4 SAMPLE SIZE 31
3.5 MEASURING INSTRUMENT 33
3.6 DATA COLLECTION 34
3.7 DATA ANALYSIS 34
3.8 EXPECTED RESULTS. 36
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULT 37
4.2 DATA ANALYSIS 37
4.3 RESULTS 48
4.4 DISCUSSIONS 54
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION 58
REFERENCES OR BIBLIOGRAPHY 62
APPENDIX 67
