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.
