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, 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.
