ABSTRACT
The
study was basically developed to appraise the Nigeria Press and Ethics of
Journalism Profession with a case Study of the Punch Newspaper regular warning
to members of the public not to offer bribes to its journalists. The objective
was to discover whether the Punch newspaper uphold ethical standards like
fairness, accuracy, balance, rejection of brown envelope, non disclosure of
source of vital information and many others in their daily assignment or not.
Ethical standard in journalism was developed to ensure good conduct and accord
respect for journalism and practitioners. Findings shows that the Punch newspaper
do uphold ethical standard in its day to day activities with 67% of the
respondents attested to this fact. The research was divided into five chapters,
Chapter one of the study based on the background of the study, problem
statement, research questions, significance of the study, scope of the study,
and definition of the terms. Chapter two, of the study contains the review of
literature with references to some scholarly written work on the subject
matter. Survey 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 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 retrain and re-orientate their workers.