Friday, 12 August 2011

The mirror(nationalmirroronline.net), the guardian(www.ngrguardiannews.com), and next(www.com234next.com). Indeed, the development has helped nigerians newspaper to overcome the challenges of space constriants with adequate space for elaborate report. It has also helped to increase their revenue generation complment from advertisments on the website. It has also help to extend the reaches of these newspapers, particularly beyond the shores of nigeria. Secondly, the punch, nation eko fm, and radio and challenges fall into the media convergence models of consumer devices. The camera phones and computer are used to receive and watch broadcast majority of youths use their devise to receive news summary. The use of multimedia news reporting is another media convergence that is prevalent in nigeria. A typicsl example is the next newspapers that uses more than two media format on its website eith written words, video and still photographs.

Media convergence

Print operation into internet publishing oraudio/ video mobile as the commonest form of media convergence. Virtually all the nigerian national newspapetd have online version of their daily publications.
The media convergence movement grew in leaps and bounds with the emergence of the internet and the digitalization of information. In nigeria, we talk of the branching out of a traditional print operation
What is convergence? Bowles and borden(2004) define it as the metging of technologies of communications suchas using cable television news broadcast on your mobile phone.