The challenges of development of Journalism in Nigeria

Abstract

Development journalism is perceived as alternative journalism that primarily focuses onnational development especially in the third world countries. This paper examines the reasons fordissociation from the advancement perspective of the developed world, the challenges faced bydevelopment journalism and discusses the way the nation should go to attain her desire in thecommittee of nations Library research was used to generate secondary data for this paper. Thewriting is anchored on the theoretical proposition of development theory of the press whichpersuades the developing nations to engage in development journalism. The paper suggests thatNigeria press should generate and manage contents to help society build consensus for the neededchanges and growth.