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    Funding Campus Radio in Nigeria: The Opportunities and Challenges
    (Online Journal of Arts, Management and Social Sciences (OJAMSS), 2020) Shodipe, Oluwafunmilayo
    This study examined Funding Campus Radio in Nigeria: the Opportunities and Challenges. The objectives was to identify the funding options available for campus radio; to ascertain the opportunities to funding campus radio in Nigeria and to identify the challenges to funding a campus radio in Nigeria. Technological Determinism Theory and Nested System Broadcasting Model were adopted for the study. The paper adopted the survey method with interview as instrument for data collection. Two station managers who were willing to participate in the study were purposively chosen among the 12 available for the study finding showed that inadequate funding were major challenge faced by the two stations. Campus radio broadcasting falls under the not-for-profit classification along with community broadcasting, hence, there are restrictions on which area they can source for income. The researchers recommended the adoption of a new broadcasting model that would help campus broadcasters overcome the funding challenges they are currently faced and facilitate a thriving broadcasting eco-system in Nigeria
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    Picture versus News Reports: Audience Perception of Means of Reporting Credible News
    (Online Journal of Arts, Management and Social Sciences (OJAMSS), 2020) Shodipe, Oluwafunmilayo
    Attaining credibility in news has been a huge discourse among scholars, journalists and media audience. This study sought to find out audience perception of credible means of reporting news between pictures and news stories. To achieve the objectives of this study, purposive sampling method was employed to gather data from respondents using a structured questionnaire. Findings from the study indicated that majority of the respondents agreed that pictures and news are both good means of reporting credible news, however, majority of respondents agreed that the use of pictures to complement news reports, authenticates a story more compared to when a story appears alone. The paper concluded that when media organizations embrace the practice of accompanying news stories with pictures, they have a better chance of improving organizational credibility, source credibility and message credibility which in turn endears the news organization to media audiences. The paper therefore recommended that pictures should accompany news reports as this strengthens the credibility of news stories. Also, it is important to indicate ‘archive’ on pictures and news video that are not recent but are used to accompany news stories.