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.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.5 THEORETICAL FRAME WORK
1.6 RESEARCH QUESTION
1.7 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 GATE KEEPING STUDIES
2.2 STUDIES ON RURAL -REPRESENTATION IN NEWSPAPERS
2.3 STUDIES SHOWING IMBALANCE WITHIN – A COUNTRY.
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
3.1 RESEARCH METHOD
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN
3.3 SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
3.4 SAMPLE SIZE
3.5 MEASURING INSTRUMENT
3.6 DATA COLLECTION
3.7 DATA ANALYSIS
3.8 EXPECTED RESULTS.
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULT
4.2 DATA ANALYSIS
4.3 RESULTS
4.4 DISCUSSIONS
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION
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