Nigerian Journalism and the Digital Age

This book explores how a globally-accessible online communication environment might provide Nigeria with the opportunity to strategically adopt elements of 21st-century online mass communication to encourage continued development in the future. In this book, Adeyanju Apejoye, Andrew Danjuma Dewan, and Seamus Simpson argue that the most productive, innovative, and effective media systems are those which position accountability to public interest as a crucial factor in the proper functioning of news production and consumption. As the Nigerian news media system has undergone decades of nuanced change and development, the provision and consumption of both traditional and digital news has emerged as a significant topic in research on African media. This book constitutes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the Nigerian news media system in the era of expanding digital information networks and service, providing nuanced analyses of news texts and offering a detailed critical exposition of the history and character of development in the nation.