The Impact Of Women Journalist On Nigerian Broadcast Media

The Impact Of Women Journalist On Nigerian Broadcast Media

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

T Media has a part to play in the struggle for gender metamorphosis and bridging gap between social individualities of woman an man. Communication studies, indeed of the radical critical tendency, have long sounded to be largely gender eyeless( maybe more a matter of reluctance to see), one can now justifiably, speak of a culture feminist media studies design( Van Zoonen 1991; 1994 Gallagher 2003). The relationship between media and women has a certain structure where woman is trapped as an object.

The part of women in media- decision timber is reflected in the poor representation of women issues and enterprises. The drastically changing media( publish) can be seen through times or especially inpost-liberalization period, media has come request- acquainted. Media- request on one hand has expanded openings for women but the kind of ‘ beats ’ or ‘ job ’ are assigned to women intelligencer is to keep them confined to soft- beat( Tomar Ranu 2009) like handling point jotting or shallow jottings.

The reconstruction and representation of gender issue is dealt within patriachal converse of the media. The question of gender touches nearly every aspect of the media- culture relationship. Van Zoonen( 1991) writes that the meaning of gender is noway given but varies according to specific culture and literal setting is subject to ongoing digressive struggle and concession( p45).

Then important issue is professional inequality which is bedded in media and is explosively grounded on social differences between man and womanj. The rejection and oppression of women by international pots is restated into media representation and employment.

To address these issues UNESCO commissioned major review of the literature worldwide related to women and media( Gallagher 1981). Gallagher( 1981) notes that her review- present a picture remarkable only for its over all thickness when compared from one country to another( p 70). The report offers considerable substantiation in support of conclusion that’s representation of women can best be described as narrow.

On film, press and the broadcast media, women conditioning and interests generally go no further than the confines of home and family. Characterized as basically dependent. Both as characters in fictional media material and as newsmakers in the press and broadcasting, women are numerically under representation- and absence which underlines their borderline and inferior staus in numerous spheres of social, profitable and culture lives. current news values define most women and utmost women ’ problem as unnewsworthy, admitting women to content primarily as women , mama or daughters of men in the news in their own right, they make the caption generally only as fashionable or entertainment numbers.

Meanwhile since the general public can not be in all places at the same tme. intelligencers through the media bring the world closest by reporting politics, sport, disasters indeed in far down China, UK, US, Russiae.t. c within some seconds.

Journalism is the nose, eye, mouth, observance of the public who help the public to see what’s passing, to findout where it’s passing, to help public to ask question on what they want to know from the people involved and to feed them as snappily as possible.

Image life without information, without news and without mass media and intelligencers.

Journalism is the collection, medication and distribution of news and related commentary and point accoutrements through similar media as flyers , newsletter, magazines, radio, stir filmland, TV, the internet and books.

Journalism is one ladened with the responibility of chancing data, writing news, editing news and other editorial accoutrements that are good of public interest for donation. intelligencer work in a radio, TV, review, magazine, online news blog/ websitee.t.c.

The foremost known intelligencers product was a newssheet in ancient Rome called the ACTA DIURNA published daily from 59 BC, it was hung in prominent places and recorded important social and political events.

Journalism in the 20th century was marked by a growing sense of professionalism. In our society moment it has been observed that there’s gender difference in all diggings, mass media isn’t an exception yet women intelligencers have contributed significantly to the development and success of jornalism locally and internationally espcially in the broadcast media where they serve as newsreaders , presenters and journalists.

Journalism can be a veritably dangerous job in particular for women journalists who expose shafts in hostile, loose and violent surroundings and in war zones. In addition to the different forms of violence against intelligencers, both men and women, and obstacles to their work, including pitfalls, murder, confiscation of material, expatriation, apprehensions and intimidation, womanish intelligencers face certain unsexed pitfalls within this manly dominated profession.

Despite, the challenges facing women intelligencers each over the world yet they’re contributing trimendously to the development of the media assiduity and broadcast media in particular.

Statement Of The Exploration Problem

This study was accepted tox-ray in real sense the challenges, limitations and benefactions of womanish intelligencers in Nigeria media assiduity particularly in broadcast media especially as newsreaders , journalists and anchor of programmes relating to women, children, fashion, entertainment, educatione.t.c and to know why there’s low participation of the womanish graduate intelligencers towards rehearsing journalism as their career.

Despite the fact that there’s vastly good number of trained womanish intelligencers, veritably many of them are working with media houses in Nigeria.

The exploration is will still, examine the impact of women intelligencers on Nigeria Broadcast media using intelligencers in Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State( BCOS) and Nigerian Television Authority( NTA) both in Ibadan.

Objects Of The Study

• To examine whether women intelligencers are contending with manly intelligencers in the field.

• To know if women responsibility as mama affect their journalism career.

• To examine if women intelligencers perform better in broadcast media further than in print media.

• To study whether some programmes are better anchored by womanish intelligencers than manly intelligencers.

• To analysis the major challenge facing women intelligencers in performing better.

• To know the extent which culture of society affect the performance of women intelligencers.

• To understand whether religion influence the effectiveness of womanish intelligencers.

• To examine whether womanish intelligencers free from hazard of journalism.

• To know how frequently do media houses shoot women intelligencers to cover extremity scenes.

Exploration Questions

• Can women intelligencers contend with manly intelligencers in the field?

• Do women responsibility as mama affect their journalism career?

• Are women intelligencers perform better in broadcast media further than in print media?

• To what extent is culture of Nigeria society affect women intelligencers performance?

• Does religion influence the effectiveness of womanish intelligencers?

Significance Of The Study

This study is veritably important because of its gender values as it examines the impact of women intelligencers on the development of broadcast media despite the harzard and other dangrous challenges facing them similar as hijacking , botheration, arrest, beating, death and host of others yet lots of women are still vibrant intelligencers.

The experimenter, thus, has supposed it fit to find out the the benefactions and the some of the reasons for low zeal among womanish mass communication scholars to the practice of journalism.

The experimenter also observed that there are many womanish preceptors of mass communication and journalism in all tertiary intitutions each over the world due to the limited figures of womanish intelligencers in the diligence.

According to Okunna( 1990) “ In utmost seminaries in Nigeria, women aren’t frequently seen as speakers both at universities and polytechnics ”

The work is veritably significant to the extent that womanish mass communication and journalism scholars will be further focus and choose journalism as a career.

Media possessors will as well know that womanish intelligencers have significant places to play in both print and broadcast assiduity.

Compass Of The Study

The exploration has been narrowed in compass to Bcos and nta ibadan since it’s veritably delicate if not insolvable to study all mess media houses across the country due to time available for the study, plutocrat, accoutrements and other logistics.

Limitation To The Study

Wide exploration of this nature can not be carried out without some constrains, this constrains pose a lot of limitations to this work.

Time Duration for the exploration work is relative1y short while stress radiated from other academic conditioning is also another constrain.

Material Little accoutrements are also available because the work is fairly new. Financial constrain poses another challenges as utmost of information are gathered through books rather than using colorful sources including internet.

Financial Financial constrain poses another challenges as it’s veritably delicate to travel to NTA and BCOS Ibadan as constantly as possible.

description of Terms

Impact it means the part, donation, achievement of women in the practice of broadcast media.

Women intelligencer This is a mature womanish picking journalism as a career.

Broadcast Media Broadcast media are means of transmission which enable audio, audio-visual of information, communication, idea, to a wider number of people harkening or viewing usally contemporaneously exemplifications are radio and TV

Journalism This is the work of collecting jotting and publishing of news stories and papers in journals and magazines or broadcasting them on radio and TV to inform the general public on effects passing in the world.

NTA Nigeria Televsion Authority

BCOS Broacasting Corporation of Oyo State