Understanding the Newspaper Business in Nigeria: A Resource Book

This book brings together a selection of articles on newspaper writing and reporting. It represents a resource book intended to sensitize would-be journalists to the arts of reporting and writing, and to the ways in which newspaper readership can be sustained in the age of online messaging. It will provide students of journalism and media studies, particularly in Nigeria, with the skills required by newspaper journalism, and is a response to the poverty of literature on newspaper journalism in Nigerian universities and colleges.


David Jowitt was born in Britain and is a Professor of English at the University of Jos, Nigeria. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he took up a teaching post in Nigeria and has spent more than forty years in the country, teaching at different levels of the education system and in different States of the Federation. He has authored and co-authored numerous books, particularly in the field of English language teaching. His scholarly work lies chiefly in the field of the study of the Nigerian variety of English, and his book Nigerian English Usage (1991) has become a classic on this subject.

Godfrey N. Danaan studied Mass Communication at the University of Jos, Nigeria, and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He received professional training in Journalism at the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University, USA. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Salford, UK, having previously worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria, and Bingham University, Karu, Nigeria. He is the editor of The Word of Life newspaper and has twelve years’ experience of teaching at the University of Jos. He has published several articles in academic journals and chapters in books on a large range of topics including media research, mediatisation, and conflict journalism, and is a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

Taye C. Obateru is a journalist with over thirty years’ experience, and has taught at the University of Jos, Nigeria, for sixteen years. He specializes in journalism studies and media law and ethics, and is currently studying for his PhD in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, UK. He has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals, and formerly worked as the Jos Bureau Chief of Vanguard Newspapers and as a Visiting Lecturer at Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria.

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Godfrey Naanlang Danaan

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David Jowitt

Taye Obateru

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ISBN: 1-4438-9773-6

ISBN13: 978-1-4438-9773-0

Release Date: 7th September 2016

Pages: 150

Price: £45.99

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