THE USES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (I.C.T) IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA (A CASE STUDY OF VISION FM GUSAU, ZAMFARA STATE)

Existing literature shows that the mass media today have felt a paradigm shift from the analogue ways of news reporting and production to a more sophisticated and complex way of news production and reporting, these transformation be it positive or negative came about as a result of the abundance of Information and Communication Technologies available to the mass media. While the media in the advanced and developed world have come to terms with the changes in the media due to ICTs, what is to be said of the African media? This study attempts to assess the use of ICTs in reporting by the Vision FM Gusau with specific aim of checking the ways journalists at the Radio fm utilize ICTs for their journalistic productions. Using the diffusion of innovation theory and survey research method, questionnaire was used for data collection. Findings from the study revealed that ICTs are well utilized at Vision FM Gusau. while journalists there derive benefits from using ICTs. The study revealed that the benefits derived at Vision FM Gusau from the use of ICTs are sometimes limited by problems encountered in the course of using them.