ABSTRACT

Journalism has witnessed steady transformations over the years. Peripheral actors’ intrusion into the mainstream journalism practice has added extra layers to our understanding of these changes. This study examines the interplay between satirical journalism and investigative journalism in Nigerian setting. The study employs a semistructured interview to evaluate how satirical and investigative journalism genres blend. Through this process, the study interrogates how the hybridity of this genre is negotiated in an African/Nigerian setting. Ten satirists (participants) provided a self-assessment of their production process. The study demonstrates that Nigerian satirical shows such as Pararan Mock News and Keepin it Real with Adeola fill a gap in Nigerian journalism where many news organisations are not critical of the government. This type of satire performs the watchdog role of journalism by calling the powerful to account through humour and jokes. As such, the line between satirical journalism and mainstream journalism keeps blurring. Although satirical journalism is evolving in Nigeria, scholarship in this area should consider it as a genuine source of (political) information and an important form of public sense-making and knowledge production. The taxonomy of satirical journalism emerging from this study includes critical, entertainment, advocacy and investigative satire. In all, this study has established that journalism and comedy practice could blend together in news satire to create a hybrid genre that combines “substance” and “nonsense” to interrogate societal anomalies.

摘要

多年来，新闻业经历了稳步的转变。外围行为者对主流新闻实践的入侵为我们对这些变化的理解增加了额外的层次。本研究探讨了讽刺新闻和调查性新闻在尼日利亚环境中的相互作用。该研究采用半结构化访谈来评估讽刺和调查性新闻类型如何融合。通过这个过程，该研究探讨了如何在非洲/尼日利亚环境中协商这种类型的混合性。十位讽刺作家（参与者）对他们的创作过程进行了自我评估。该研究表明，尼日利亚的讽刺节目如Pararan Mock News和Keepin it Real with Adeola填补了尼日利亚新闻业的空白，许多新闻机构并不批评政府。这种类型的讽刺通过幽默和笑话呼吁有权势的人来承担新闻业的监督角色。因此，讽刺新闻与主流新闻之间的界限不断模糊。尽管讽刺新闻在尼日利亚不断发展，但该领域的学术研究应将其视为（政治）信息的真正来源，以及公共意义构建和知识生产的重要形式。本研究中出现的讽刺新闻分类包括批判性、娱乐性、宣传性和调查性讽刺。在所有，