NIGERIA FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS IN ROUND TWO: Brief background: At the end of the discussions and the scoring of the indicators, the panelists brainstormed on a set of questions and answers which are intended to guide the course of action in the next two years. Below is the summary of responses. 1. Have there been changes in the media environment over the last two years? There has been deterioration in the economic environment, making it a lot more difficult for media organisations to muster resources to sustain and improve media operations and workers’ welfare although there is relative change in the welfare condition of senior journalists. For example, the price of newsprint has gone up from N120000 per ton to N215, 000 per ton. There has been an increase in the number of media houses with more newspapers in particular coming into existence thus also increasing the number of journalists The technological environment has changed, more journalists use laptops while there is a national target for the digitalisation of broadcast media by 2012 2. If positive changes: Who or what has been the main cause? Competition (political), technological development and glo- balisation 3. What are the main obstacles for (further) positive change? Resource availability, lack of FOI, culture of secrecy, hostility towards journalists by the political class. The lack of political opposition creates the impression that the media is the opposition and therefore treated as such. 38 African Media Barometer - Nigeria 2008