Onworgu K
The study is a ten year study (1999-2009). It involved both content analysis and historical study. Total sample sizes of 227 editions were used from an accessible population of 1,133 drawn using Australian Calculator from five daily Nigerian newspapers, namely: Daily Times, Daily Champion, The Vanguard, The Guardian and This Day newspaper. All the newspapers are privately owned except Daily Times, which, hitherto, was owned by the Federal Government of Nigeria. These newspapers were selected because of their objectivity in writing reporting and their national spread. The instrument for data collection was the code sheet. The code sheet was constructed to contain such data as unit of analysis, depth of the stories (measured in inches), sources of information, content categories, directionality and placement of the stories. Also, we did a constructed years, months and days study. The constructed years at one interval included 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. For the constructed months of study, we had January, March, May, July, September and November. To determine the number of editions to be studied from each paper, for five and months, within the selected years and months, we used multi-stage sampling and divided the sample size of 227 by the number of years (5) studies and we got 45 editions per year. To further get the editions for paper, per month, the newspaper were stratified into months (constructed for the study) and we had eight (8) edition paper per month
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