Ten African journalists and filmmakers have been selected for the One World Media Fellowship aimed at aspiring journalists and film-maker, supporting new talent from around the world to produce engaging and creative media in the global south. They are among twenty fellows selected for the fellowship Working in film, print, audio, or multimedia, the Fellows’ […]
Journalist and poet, Simbo Olorunfemi writes that the media has carried on as if above the law and has to learn to take responsibility Every time a media organ or practitioner is queried on the basis of the law, what we have come to see is for those who lay claim to the protection of
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The management of Radio Now, 95.3 FM, a private radio station in Lagos has faulted the directive of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) that all broadcast stations in the country should suspend patronage of the microblogging platform, Twitter. In a statement by its Managing Director, Kadaria Ahmed, the station noted with dismay the directive which
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo Olu has urged the Federal Government to review its decision on the suspension of Twitter operations in the country. Speaking in Lagos on Monday, Sanwo-Olu said the issue can be handled a lot better considering the number of e-commerce firms and youths that are engaging in digital stuff. While not
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Participatory Communication for Gender Development Initiative (PAGED) has trained journalists on covid-19 response and safety as part of frontline workers. The two-day capacity building workshop was organised for journalists from Adamawa, Bauchi, Plateau, Taraba and Gombe, held in Bauchi State and was sponsored by the European Union (EU). A Media Consultant, Mr Ibrahim Iliyasu, the
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The suspension of the operations of microblogging social media platform, Twitter, by the federal government has continued to attract wide condemnation by human rights groups, various groups and individuals. On Monday, two non-governmental organizations, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the International Press Centre (IPC) today condemned the suspension and threatened to lodge a formal complaint
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Theodora Aidoo writes on the experiences of three female journalists in the newsroom in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown Men have largely dominated journalism in Ghana and women’s voices were not often heard in the media in times of crisis and conflict. These days, however, there is a paradigm shift, and this is no
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Applications for the 4th edition of Paradigm Digital Rights and Inclusion Media Fellowship, DRIMF, for interested media professionals in Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe is open till June 22, 2021. DRIMF, a programme of the Paradigm Initiative, through academic and practical learnings, seeks to embed media professionals within the digital ecosystem and connect
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JamblabAfrica in collaboration with Civic Tech Innovation has organized a webinar to discuss “Africa Elections, Africa Voices: Old and New Roles for Journalism and Civic Tech Community.” The webinar held on Thursday, 27th May 2021 was facilitated by four panellists: Kathy Magrobi, Founder of Quote This Woman, Ivan Louis Pinno, a co-founder of Digital Woman
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West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, Dubawa, has unveiled the twenty-six fellows selected for its 2021 cohort of fact-checkers to combat misinformation in the sub-region. The platform, under the auspices of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), announced the commencement of the yearly fellowship in Abuja on Monday 17th May 2021. Now in
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