In the course of its 160-year sojourn, the Nigerian press has experienced progress and
challenges that have impacted on its sustainability. Tremendous progress has been recorded in
the areas of news coverage, adoption of technology for news gathering and printing, including
the emergence of multiple printing facilities across the political zones and a ready pool of
trained personnel. However the last one decade has exposed the media industry in Nigeria,
particularly the print section, into perhaps its greatest unanticipated challenge from the field of
technology: the digital disruption of news gathering, news dissemination and news consumption.
Yet, while her counterparts across the globe admittedly also grapple with the same challenge,
little has been seen in the Nigerian media as pragmatic approach to reducing or eliminating the
gradual erosion of its core mandate of information dissemination, education and entertainment
and justifiably, profitability when compared with others across the globe. Several literature have
looked at how the digital disruption mostly affect journalists or media products, but on strength
of the theory of digital disruption as well as argument that the journalist is only the source of
news material, and not the actual producer of news product which also involves other
professionals, this paper attempts an holistic approach to the challenges facing the newspaper
industry as an entity and proposes some critical steps particularly in the areas of content and
connectivity, to stem its current downslide in order to match it up with ongoing global response
to the disruption from technology.
- CONTENT, CONNECTIVITY AND NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS IN A DIGITAL AGE-2dd9f0fd
CONTENT, CONNECTIVITY AND NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS IN A DIGITAL AGE-2dd9f0fd