MEDIA CAREER DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (MCDN) is a registered not-for-profit and non-political organization with the following aims and objectives:
- To promote excellence in media practice in Nigeria
- To organise media training and provide mentoring support for journalists and media professionals.
- To produce resource materials to enhance media career development.
- To engage in advocacy for freedom of the press in Nigeria.
- To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, share experience, find mutual support and guidance for media professionals.
- To protect the interest & welfare of journalists and media professionals
Our management team led by the founder and Executive Secretary, Lekan Otufodunrin, a media career development specialist and journalist, is made up of experienced journalists with local and international network to meet the career development needs of journalists and media professionals.
Our Board of Trustees members are accomplished media professionals and academics.
Board of Trustees
Dr Oloruntola Sunday
Chairman
Professor of Mass Communication, University of Lagos
Alhaji Yusuf Alli
Managing Editor
Northern Operations, The Nation Newspapers
Mrs Ugonma Cokey
Treasurer
Deputy Director, Voice of Nigeria
Mrs Sekinah Lawal
Former Chairperson
Lagos Chapter of the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ)
Lekan Otufodunrin
Executive Secretary
Columnist and former Managing Editor, The Nation Newspapers