ABSTRACT

Academic writings are replete with studies on news imbalance. So much have been said about news imbalance in the international scenes.
However, by writing this project, the researcher intends to look beyond the imbalance to the root cause.
It is hoped that the information contained in this project will go a longway to correct the persistent problem of urban – rural news imbalance in Nigerian newspaper.
Consequently, chapter one introduce this study as well as the theoretical frame work on which the study is based.
In chapter two, the researcher gives an in-depth review of the works and studies done by the urban – rural imbalance.
Chapter three simply states the method of study used to conduct t he study.
Chapter four and five presented and analysed the data. Besides, the researcher drew some conclusions from the data presented and make appropriate recommendation.

COVER PAGE                                I
TITLE PAGE                                II
APPROVAL PAGE                            III
DEDICATION                                IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                        V
ABSTRACT                                VI
TABLE OF CONTENT                            VII

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION                                1
1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY                1
1.2    STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM    8
1.3    OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY                9
1.4    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY                10
1.5    THEORETICAL FRAME WORK                11
1.6    RESEARCH QUESTION                    13
1.7    RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS                    14

CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW                        15
2.1    GATE KEEPING STUDIES                    15
2.2    STUDIES ON RURAL -REPRESENTATION IN NEWSPAPERS         20
2.3    STUDIES SHOWING IMBALANCE WITHIN – A COUNTRY.          21

CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY                            28
3.1    RESEARCH METHOD                        28
3.2    RESEARCH DESIGN                        28
3.3    SAMPLING TECHNIQUES                    30
3.4    SAMPLE SIZE                            31
3.5    MEASURING INSTRUMENT                33
3.6    DATA COLLECTION                        34
3.7    DATA ANALYSIS                        34
3.8    EXPECTED RESULTS.                    36

CHAPTER FOUR
4.1    DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULT                37
4.2    DATA ANALYSIS                        37
4.3    RESULTS                                48
4.4    DISCUSSIONS                            54

CHAPTER FIVE    
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION                58
 REFERENCES OR BIBLIOGRAPHY                62
APPENDIX                                    67