THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT ON MEDIA ETHICS AMONGST JOURNALIST
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Abstract
This study sought to find out the influence of social environment on media ethics amongst journalist in Uyo metropolis. The objectives of the study were to: ascertain whether social environment influences news coverage; find out ways the social environment influence media ethics amongst journalists in Uyo metropolis with a case study of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). The objective was to discover whether NUJ upholds ethical standards like fairness, accuracy, balance, rejection of brown envelope, non-disclosure of sources of vital information and many others in its daily assignment or not. Ethical standard in journalism was developed to ensure good conduct and accord respect for journalism and practitioners. Findings show that the NUJ do upholds ethical standard in its day to day activities with 67% of the respondents attested to this fact. Survey research method was adopted and questionnaires were administered. Simple random sampling technique was also adopted to select respondents. Data analysis and interpretations of findings done with frequency and percentage method of data analysis was used. It is recommended that Media houses (NUJ) should increase the salary of their workers and paid them on time while regular allowance should be made available for them. Trainings and workshops are to be organised regularly to train and re-orientate their workers to uphold ethical standard.
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