CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Investigative journalism was described in many ways throughout the afternoon: as “uncovering the hidden”; “expensive”; “difficult”; “requiring dedication”; “has impact”; “holding power to account”. These terms are important: I’ve blogged elsewhere about journalism’s professional ideology and how it compares to bloggers’, and investigative journalism has its own professional ideology within that. If we are going to ask “But is it investigative journalism?” then these will be particularly relevant.
For example, there was a focus on investigative journalism as process that particularly fascinated me: Donal Macintyre talked about the ‘undercover reporter’ as a “narrative device” to allow them to create a narrative around important but difficult-to-dramatize issues, rather than something inherent in investigative work itself. In other words, for his purposes the process of ‘going undercover’ had a storytelling function as much as – if not more than – an investigative one.
On the other hand, some members of the audience dismissed modern examples of investigative work because it did not fit into this mythology.
A comparison of the Wikileaks, MPs’ expenses and Watergate stories is useful to flesh this out: in looking at those three where is the cut-off point that makes this one ‘investigative’, and another not? More to the point, why do we care?
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
Problems and Prospects of Online investigative journalism have been said to be a serious problem facing Nigerian online reporter. Some of these problems are:
1. Inadequate policy to guard the reporters towards online
research
2. There is no adequate technology to enhance their job.
3. The imitation of western techniques the American techniques
4. The Nigerian online journalists are faced with brain wash. Therefore, if the above problems are not been taking care off, it will lead to a total reinstallation of online investigative reporting.
1.2 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The researcher’s objective is to conduct an in-depth research on the Problems and Prospects of Online investigative journalism with an insight to determine its implication to the values of investigative reporting in the Nigeria Mass media:
1. To determine the basic problems of online investigation.
2. To examines its pervasive impact on the investigative reporting in the Media industry.
3. To suggest prospects to the detected problems.
1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1. It will enable the government and policy makers to put adequate measures in place to check the movement of online investigative reporting in Nigeria Media.
2. It will help remove the idea of imitating online investigative reporting in Nigeria.
3. The conduct of this research will enable the government to know what role the online investigative reporting media can play in the development of a country and therefore, harness the mass media in the democratic process and development process in general.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The research questions are arranged questions meant to be asked by the researcher and receive a feedback (answer) from a respondent. For the researcher to achieve her aim, the following question should be used.
1. Do Nigerian reporters expose themselves more to internet research than other means of reporting?
Do they prefer internet research to locally means of investigative reporting?
1. what are the problems faced by Nigerian reporters on the internet?
2. What are the suggested solutions to this problems?
1.5 SCOPE/DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The scope of this study is to find out how the the problemsa that hinder the development of online investigative jourmnalism in Nigeria. Also to suggest possible solution to solve the identified problems
In the cause of the research, oral interview were consulted on both reporters and other journalist of the media. But the research depends more on the questionnaire which were distributed were completed and returned. The researcher also consulted some textbooks, Newspapers and journals which provided a lot of information pertaining to the study.
1.6 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
Though this research work is on the problems and prospects of online investigative reporting. It is limited to he Nigerian Media industry, using 2 media houses that were randomly selected from the industry and fifty questionnaires that were distributed to them. This is because of time and resource, had it been that time and resource were available similar studies would have been done in the country so as to ensure a more embracing result.
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