ABSTRACT
Media hazards is one of the major
issues in journalism but attracted less attention in the last few decades
especially now that democracy is waxing stronger in Nigeria making it appears
as if there were no hazard any more. The
focus of this research is to examine media hazards on the performance of
journalists in Nigeria. Media practitioners and media owners face different
challenges at one time or the other in the cause of carrying out their official
duties and few of such as killing, kidnapping, threaten, accident,
embarrassment, humiliation among others. Survey research method was used, of
which 100 copies of questionnaires were administered to respondents who were
randomly selected among member of Tell magazine and AIT, Lagos) findings shown
that killing, threaten and kidnapping are the major hazards to journalism
practices in Nigeria. It
is therefore recommended that further
studies on this research, should be extended to the problems and prospects of
journalism and the role of broadcast media in preventing media hazards.
