This study is about “ICTs’ Application and Radio News Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Bauchi Rad... more This study is about “ICTs’ Application and Radio News Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Bauchi Radio Corporation (BRC) FM, Bauchi”. The research aimed at finding out the influence of the application of ICTs in Radio news broadcasting in Nigeria, using BRC FM as case study. The work made attempt to assess the application of ICTs, the extent and influence of such application as well as the challenges faced in the application wh. The survey research method was used. The questionnaire served as instrument of data collection. A total of 112 respondents were administered the questionnaires, out of which 105 were returned. The data were analyzed using simple descriptive and statistical tools such as simple percentages, tabular presentations and frequency distributions. The study was anchored on the Diffusion of Innovation and Technological Determinism Theories. At the end of the study, the findings revealed that, BRC Bauchi has since adopted the new ICTs and the extent of application and use is high as about 70% of the respondents responded in the affirmative. The findings also discovered that ICTs have great influence on journalists’ responsibilities by ensuring speed, accuracy, efficiency, reliability and qualitative news packages. It also found out that despite the application of ICTs to a very large extent, there are still challenges being faced which hamper utilising them to the fullest such as lack of trained personnel to operate the tools, epileptic power supply, lack of political/ideological will on the part of management etc. Based on these findings, recommendations were made some of which include: rekindling the political will of policy makers on ICTs, curtailing power outages, training and retraining of staff on computer literacy, taking this research on a larger scale etc.
This study is about “ICTs’ Application and Radio News Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Bauchi Rad... more This study is about “ICTs’ Application and Radio News Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Bauchi Radio Corporation (BRC) FM, Bauchi”. The research aimed at finding out the influence of the application of ICTs in Radio news broadcasting in Nigeria, using BRC FM as case study. The work made attempt to assess the application of ICTs, the extent and influence of such application as well as the challenges faced in the application wh. The survey research method was used. The questionnaire served as instrument of data collection. A total of 112 respondents were administered the questionnaires, out of which 105 were returned. The data were analyzed using simple descriptive and statistical tools such as simple percentages, tabular presentations and frequency distributions. The study was anchored on the Diffusion of Innovation and Technological Determinism Theories. At the end of the study, the findings revealed that, BRC Bauchi has since adopted the new ICTs and the extent of application and use is high as about 70% of the respondents responded in the affirmative. The findings also discovered that ICTs have great influence on journalists’ responsibilities by ensuring speed, accuracy, efficiency, reliability and qualitative news packages. It also found out that despite the application of ICTs to a very large extent, there are still challenges being faced which hamper utilising them to the fullest such as lack of trained personnel to operate the tools, epileptic power supply, lack of political/ideological will on the part of management etc. Based on these findings, recommendations were made some of which include: rekindling the political will of policy makers on ICTs, curtailing power outages, training and retraining of staff on computer literacy, taking this research on a larger scale etc.
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