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    Investigative Reporting and its Challenges for Nigerian Journalists. A Content Analysis.
    (Griffith College, 2023) Ugochi Onumajuru, Beatrice
    The concept of investigative reporting is to unveil societal misconduct so as to promote transparency and accountability of government. This research examined Investigative reporting and its challenges for Nigerian journalists, its decline in practice, and perception of young reporters towards the career, thereby suggesting measures for improvement of better practice. The research reviewed related literature and anchored on the social responsibility theory of the press. The research adopted a qualitative content analysis approach in the methodology whereby in-depth interviews of eight participants were conducted through purposive sampling. A thematic analysis of the data collected was done by assigning codes to common themes. Findings revealed that legal constraints/poor access to information, attacks, funding/poor remuneration, censorship, and regulations are the major challenges. Participants also identified ownership/political influence, lack of technological skills and training, female gender discrimination and corruption as other forms of challenge. Attacks, funding, poor remuneration, gender discrimination are found to be the cause of decline in practice. Results also showed that younger journalists that aspire a career in the field are dispirited to practice because of their safety which is at risk. However, adequate funding and remuneration is said to overcome some of the challenges. Collaboration of media is suggested. The research also recommends a comparative legal implementation of media rights study for further research.
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    The aftereffects of the Covid-19 pandemic on news consumption habits and media trust on 3rd level students in Ireland
    (Griffith College, 2023) Butenhoff, Laura-Marie
    The public health crisis known as the Covid-19 pandemic was an unprecedented interruption of the world’s natural flow and people’s daily patterns. As a subject of frequent and sustained news coverage, the pandemic’s impact favoured the formation of alternative news & current affairs consumption habits among consumers. With the increasing and deliberate proliferation of erroneous information on social media platforms, the necessity to comprehend how and why people consume news as well as factors that influence those habits has grown significantly. Influential factors interrogated by this study incorporate media literacy and media trust. The aftereffects of the pandemic have provided a suitable environment and an opportune occasion to investigate this objective. By employing an online survey that comprised both open-ended and closed questions, this objective was examined with data collected from 41 current and recent Irish students currently studying or with a media-related degree. Through cross-tabulation and keyword extraction, this research identified that news consumption patterns as well as media trust in Irish news changed among the 41 questioned individuals. Additionally, it was found that there was active participation from the target audience in maintaining those patterns even after the pandemic. Lastly, the study was able to determine that media literacy has been a pivotal and influential factor in those changes.