NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION
COURSE CODE: MAC 311
COURSE TITLE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND WORLD
MEDIA
SYSTEM
UNITS: 3
TIME: 3 HOURS
INSTRUCTION: ANSWER QUESTION ONE AND ANY OTHER
THREE QUESTIONS.
1. Pan-African News Agency (PANA) was established on May 25, 1983 to serve as a
means of freeing Africa from information colonisation by the Europeans. Buttress this
assertion with five (5) points well developed. (25 marks)
2. Explain in details the three types of news flow and recommend appropriate information
flow for developing countries. (15 marks)
3a. What is the concept of international news source? (3 marks)
3b. List six (6) forms of international news sources. (12 marks)
4. Discuss three (3) basic things that make an international station. (15 marks)
5. Discuss exhaustively five (5) basic ways that international media can be controlled.
(15 marks)
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