ABSTRACT
The study was basically developed to examine the
application or impact of media ethics on the news gathering and dissemination
with a case study of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). The objective was to discover whether NUJ uphold ethical standards like
fairness, accuracy, balance, rejection of brown envelope, non disclosure of
source of vital information and many others in its daily assignment or not.
Ethical standard in journalism was developed to ensure good conduct and accord
respect for journalism and practitioners. Findings show that the NUJ do uphold
ethical standard in its day to day activities with 67% of the respondents
attested to this fact. Survey research method was adopted and questionnaires
were administered. Simple random sampling technique was also adopted to select
respondents. Data analysis and interpretations of findings done with frequency
and percentage method of data analysis was used. It is recommended that Media
houses (NUJ) should increase the salary of their workers and paid them on time
while regular allowance should be made available for them. Training and
workshops are to be organized regularly to train and re-orientate their workers
to uphold ethical standard.
