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Record W3206549201

Nigerian Newsrooms Under COVID-19 Lockdown

2021· article· en· W3206549201 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Fatima Iyabo Abubakre

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Political Economy of Communication · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNewspaperCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Political scienceMainstreamPandemicQuarter (Canadian coin)EliteSocial mediaPublic relationsPopulationEconomic growthMedia studiesPoliticsSociologyGeographyEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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A global pandemic garners a great deal of media attention. The COVID-19 crisis is no exception. It was distinctive because more than a third of the world’s population had to undergo quarantine in the first quarter of 2020 which had far-reaching social effects. This study provides a historical overview of Nigerian newspapers and explores how the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria impacted upon the newsrooms of mainstream media organizations. It draws on interviews with heads of newsrooms and mid-management staff from six elite newspapers in the country. Findings reveal that although the pandemic was economically challenging for news organizations, they had no choice but to stay in business, providing information to the public during lockdown and the protests which followed. This took a toll on journalists whose work was impeded by mob and police actions and had broader implications for news production and the survival of news organizations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.926
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.078
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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