Media Coverage and Audience Awareness of Prison Reform Campaigns in South-East Nigeria

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Media Watch Pub Date : 2020-09-12 DOI:10.15655/MW/2020/12092020

Jennifer Chidinma Ezuilo, P. Okon, U. Okugo

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Abstract

: The study investigated the extent to which the media have set the agenda for the reformation of prison, which has since August 2019 been renamed “correctional services” in Nigeria, and the corresponding level of awareness among media audience in South-East Nigeria. Survey and content analysis were the research methods adopted. For the survey, 240 subjects were purposively chosen from a cluster of two groups. In contrast, 56 randomly chosen program schedules of broadcast media and 28 issues of select newspapers for February 2017 and February 2018 were content-analyzed. Interviews were also conducted. The study revealed inadequate media coverage of the reforms and a low level of awareness among respondents. It recommended, among others, that the World Prisons’ Awareness Day held annually on February 11 should be popularized to ensure increased awareness by both the media and their audience.

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媒体报道和听众对尼日利亚东南部监狱改革运动的认识

：该研究调查了媒体为监狱改革制定议程的程度，以及尼日利亚东南部媒体受众的相应意识水平。自2019年8月以来，监狱在尼日利亚更名为“惩教服务”。采用调查和内容分析相结合的研究方法。在这项调查中，有目的地从两组人中选出240名受试者。相反，对2017年2月和2018年2月随机选择的56个广播媒体节目表和28期精选报纸进行了内容分析。还进行了访谈。该研究显示，媒体对改革的报道不足，受访者的认识水平较低。除其他外，它建议推广每年2月11日举行的世界监狱宣传日，以确保提高媒体及其观众的认识。

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