How Children are Reported in Nigerian Newspapers: Implications for the Realisation of the Rights of the Child
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D-Net Communications, Norway
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The newspapers as gender-setters have influence in ordering the course of events by
framing issues around such events in certain ways. Such pattern of framing can attract
attention and bring about desired response to such issues. It is in this regard that this paper,
through content analysis research design, studied two Nigerian newspapers in order to
understand the news environment in which child rights is portrayed and the consequences it
has for the realisation of the rights of the child. The finding shows that the current coverage of
children’s issues by the Nigerian newspapers may not deliver much benefits as regards the
realisation of the rights of the child due to low coverage and inadequate prominence given to
children, lack of good treatment of the issue with appropriate genres, as well as poor
engagement of children themselves on issues that affect them.
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H Social Sciences (General)