Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism

A Critical Look at the Success of Development Journalism in Ethiopia

Abstract

Solomon Tabor

The article focusses on assessing whether development journalism is successful in government media or not. The paper has been presented to public lectures and seminars. The purpose of this essay is to address the question that to what extent the employment of the model is successful. Though the question at hand calls for a quantitative data analysis, this specific article attempts to addresses it descriptively and the thesis statement of this article is that it is too difficult to claim that development journalism in Ethiopia is successful or rather the extent of success of DJ in Ethiopia is quite low