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Title:Ethical dilemma revisited: PBO newspapers and the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist
Author:Ojebode, Ayobami
Year:2013
Periodical:Journal of African Media Studies (ISSN 1751-7974)
Volume:5
Issue:3
Pages:295-312
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:journalists
newspapers
professional ethics
private enterprises
politicians
External link:https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.5.3.295_1
Abstract:Focusing on politician-businessperson-owned (PBO) newspapers, the study examined how loyalty to the owners' multiple interests has reduced the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist. Through in-depth interviews and textual analysis, the study found that journalists in PBO newspapers are extremely constrained on the kind of stories they write and how. Caught in the conflict between professionalism and pandering to the owners' layers of political and economic interests, many journalists submit, while some rebel. The narrowed elbowroom is a reason for many of the ethical violations among Nigerian journalists. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract]
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