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Newspaper coverage of agricultural information in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Ogessa, Catherine M.
dc.contributor.author Sife, Alfred S.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-08-30T07:22:21Z
dc.date.available 2024-08-30T07:22:21Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.citation Sife, A. S., & Tandika, Z. (2014). Analysis of contents of Tanzanian university library websites. Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania, 17, 42-49. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2953-2515
dc.identifier.issn 0856-1818
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/1429
dc.description.abstract This study examined the coverage of agricultural information in Tanzania’s newspapers published between 2009 and 2013. Four newspapers—Mwananchi, Habari Leo, The Guardian and Daily News—comprising 840 editions were selected for the study. Data were collected using a checklist and analysed using Microsoft excel and SPSS. The study findings show that of the 63,609 news articles in all the four newspaper editions, only 836 (1.3%) articles were on agriculture. The proportion of agricultural news articles published ranged from 0.79 percent in 2010 to 1.92 percent in 2012. Habari Leo had an average of 61.4 agricultural articles followed by Mwananchi with an average of 39.4 articles. The prominence of agricultural information was as low as 4.9 percent in all the newspapers. It is recommended that the government should formulate and institute policies aimed to increase the coverage of developmental topics such as agriculture in the newspapers. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher African Journals Online (AJOL) en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 12;No. 1
dc.subject Agriculture en_US
dc.subject Information en_US
dc.subject Tanzania en_US
dc.subject Newspapers en_US
dc.title Newspaper coverage of agricultural information in Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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