Media and ethical issues in terrorism reporting and the security implication in Nigeria

What is it about?

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between media reporting and violent extremism to explain the ethical and security issues emanating from it in Nigeria. This paper draws on security and ethical literature, while a multimethod approach consisting of in-depth and focus group interviews was used. Content analysis was also relied upon from the interviews granted by media experts on terrorism, security, and ethics. Findings revealed that journalists are facing problems in areas of freedom of expression, framing, content selection, and personal security. Again, this paper implies that elements of public awareness and issues of relevance also push the media to excessive reporting, in which ethics and security must stand to play a restraining role.

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Why is it important?

This paper is novel as it is the first of its kind where media experts are involved in research attempts on media reporting and violent extremism in relation to security and ethical issues in Nigeria.