IMPACT OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT ON JOURNALISM PRACTICE (A STUDY OF D.B.S JOURNALISTS IN ASABA, DELTA STATE)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The study evaluates the impact of the Freedom of Information (FOI)Act on Journalism Practice: A Study of D.B.S Asaba, Delta State. The study revealed that D.B.S journalists are aware of the contents and implications of the Freedom of Information Act on their journalistic duties to a high extent. The study also found that Freedom of Information Act has its strengths as it makes Information readily available and accessible to the journalists and the public where hitherto they did not. However, it was also found that the strengths of the FOI Act is limited by some weaknesses which include its inability to expunge other obnoxious Act which militate against journalism practice. The study therefore emphasized the need for some aspects of the FOI Acts, especially those provisions that contain nebulous and ambiguous concepts that are open to different interpretations to be removed, and recommended that media organizations should organize conferences and workshops to educates and enlighten journalists and mass media practitioners on how to put the FOI Act into practice in order to assist them in their journalist tasks amongst others.
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