Browsing by Author "Terefe, Tenaw(Ass. Pro.)"

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    Analysis of Football Hooliganism in the Ethiopian Media: The Case of Addis Zemen Newspaper
    (AAU, 2021-06) Chanie, Tewabe; Terefe, Tenaw(Ass. Pro.)
    Football hooliganism issue has become a common incident today in Ethiopia and a focus area for Ethiopian print media. The media have a remarkable power for predicting the seriousness and providing awareness creation to football hooliganism problems in the society. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine how football hooliganism issue was reported specifically in Addis Zemen newspaper. This study utilized both quantitative and qualitative research method to examine the coverage of football hooliganism in the newspaper. The sampled newspaper was purposely selected based on national newspaper/ its accessibility to reach large audience and based on daily newspaper/ timeliness to cover the stories within a day when it occurs; as a result it insures that the message is current and relevant. The sampled period was covered 9 months from November 2018 to July 2019. This period was selected because; during this time high football hooliganism incidents were occurred. The researcher prepared four research questions to meet the objectives of this study. To answer these questions the researcher has employed quantitative content analysis and in depth interview techniques. A quantitative content analysis was used to gather the data from the analyzed newspaper. In-depth interviews were also conducted with two sport journalists and a sport editor of the newspaper. The results revealed that Addis Zemen newspaper used different frames and sources in covering football hooliganism. Consequently, responsibility frame was dominantly used with 28.57%. Conflict, diagnostic and prognostic frames were moderately used. But morality frame was the least used frame with 3.57%. Likewise, feature stories were the most frequently covered story types with 42.86% whereas news stories were at the least level with 25%. Equally important, the significant numbers of the stories were covered at the back page of the newspaper with 53.57%. But there was no coverage on the front page. Moreover, the newspaper was dominantly relied on federation and research document sources with 35.71% each. Government officials and Meetings & workshops were used to in a limited extent. But police, victims and individual sources were not used in the newspaper. Concerning tones, negative tone was dominantly observed with 46.43%. It is recommended that the newspaper must give attention to use balance sources and focuses on causes and solutions of the problem in coverage of football hooliganism in Ethiopia.
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    Assessing the Coverage of Science and Technology news in Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation: The Case of FM Addis 97.1 ‘Addis Mereja’ Daily News Prime Time
    (AAU, 2021-07) Ayalew, Yetemegnush; Terefe, Tenaw(Ass. Pro.)
    The main objective of this research was to assess the coverage of science and technology issues in FM Addis 97.1, particularly on „Addis Mereja‟ daily news prime time. For avoiding the inherent weakens of the individual methods, the researcher used a mixed methodology; quantitative and qualitative. Content analysis and in-depth interviews were used as data collection methods using the purposive sampling technique; to get an in-depth understanding of the issue from the appropriate source of information. The finding showed that FM Addis 97.1 gives less attention to Science and Technology news compared with others. The result of the content analysis indicated that only 3.63% of news was science and technology issues; out of 2,202 from December 1, 2018, up to May 30, 2019; on the other hand, national and international current affairs (36.7%) and sport (28.2%) obtained high coverage. The result of the in-depth interview also indicated that FM Addis 97.1 was not covering science and technology news adequately because the station was not allocated enough time, and was not done in the required detail. In general, the results confirmed that science and technology news was given less coverage by FM Addis 97.1. The origins of most science and technology news were foreign 83.75%, and only 16.25% found to be local. The finding of the in-depth interview also showed that most of the news was of foreign origin because there was limited access to science and technology information at local. The knowledge of FM Addis 97.1 journalists in science and technology was less. Also, the station lacks vibrant media policy, strategy, and guidelines to cover science and technology news. The media's weak relation with scientists and science organizations was also the bottleneck problem for science and technology news. Finally, the study recommended interested researchers use this study as a baseline to investigate the relationship between media and science and technology.