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Compare And Contrast Nigerian Newspaper, Radio,Television Websites And Foreign Websites

They have the technological know how. The Nigeria media sites are affiliate to most of their sites. Their website are graphically appealing compared to that of Nigeria. Their websites receives more surfer than those of Nigeria media. Instantaneous responds to surfers request. Unlike that of Nigeria media site drowning of network problems. Nigerian newspaper websites features politics,business news,sport,entertainment, life &Style and travel while the foreign websites also doesthe same. Nigerian websites does not add the time news is posted but the foreign websites add the time news is posted. The Nigerian websites always features advert while the foreign websites does the same. Most foreign television websites uploads videos of their programmes e.g. Soap Opera, while the Nigerian websites does not. Foreign websites includes articles while Nigerian websites does not include. Nigerian websites includes pictures and videos to tell stories while foreign websites...

ANALYSIS OF THE NIGERIAN MEDIA SCENE

The development of media in Nigeria dated back to pre-colonial era. The first newspaper in Nigeria was Iwe Irohin of Reverend Henry Townsend of the Church Missionary Society in 1859. The first radio broadcast was relayed into Nigerians homes in 1932 by the colonial authorities. The first television broadcast in Nigeria was western Nigeria Radio Vision Service of 1959 founded by Chief. Obafemi Awolowo. With the advent of the internet, almost all media houses in Nigeria (print and electronic) now have a site where they publish or broadcast information. This is because, the new media has the capability of performing all the functions of traditional media on a single platform. This is otherwise known as media convergence. News reporting is no longer for professional journalist alone as the audience themselves are now partially playing the roles of journalist. A typical example of this is, TVC (Television Continental) website where the masses file in different stories into the statio...