The Sun Politics Editor Fred Itua defends PhD thesis in development communication

The Politics Editor of The Sun Newspaper, Fred Itua, has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in Mass Communication, with a major in Development Communication, at Veritas University, Abuja.
The doctorate will be officially conferred on Itua at the university’s convocation in November this year. This will make him one of the few PhD holders who are media practitioners in Nigeria’s media space.
The thesis, titled “Newspapers’ Coverage of Irregular Migration in Nigeria, 2020 to May 2023,” was supervised by Prof. Tsebee Asor Kenneth and Prof. Armstrong A. Idachaba.
Itua presented a systematic content analysis of 362 articles published by The Punch, The Guardian and The Sun over 41 ...