Winners have emerged for the 2020 Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA) at the ceremony held on Friday night in Lagos. With 895 entries assessed, The Nation with a total of 14 awards had 38 nominations in various categories. New Telegraph, 22 nominations, The Guardian had 17, PUNCH 14, Vanguard eight and The Sun two nominations. The Guardian Newspapers won five of the […]
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Two hundred and seventy-four journalists were jailed in relation to their work globally this year according to the annual global survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The record number of affected journalists’ exceeding 272 in 2016 as at December 1 followed arrests of many covering COVID-19 or political `instability by authoritarian nations. “ Amid
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A call has been made for a review of existing regulatory provisions to make a commitment to the welfare of journalists by employers enforceable. The call was made in a communique issued at the end of a stakeholders forum on Journalists safety and press freedom limitations in Nigeria organized by the International Press Centre. Participants
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The Deputy Editor/Editorial Board Chairman of BusinessDay, Tayo Fagbule has been appointed editor of the business and financial daily newspaper. He replaces Patrick Atuanya who recently resigned his appointment alleging corporate malpractice and bad management of the company. Fagbule is a graduate of Economics from the University of Lagos and holds an MBA from the
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Media programmes scheduled for this week include a call for entries, award announcement, deadline, a day of tribute among others between Monday, December 14- Saturday, December 19, 2020. The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details. MONDAY, December 14, 2020 Deadline for Journalism Fund’s Money Trail Grants Journalist teams from Africa applications
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Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, DAME has announced the winners of the 29th edition of its award at a ceremony on Saturday, December 12, 2020 in Lagos. List of the winners of the various categories are as follows: Newspaper of the Year The Nation Nutrition Reporting Award Chioma Obinna, Vanguard’s Senior Health Correspondent Editor of
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Winners have emerged for the 2020 edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) The winners announced at a ceremony on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 in Lagos include Damilola Banjo of Shahara Reporter who won the online category and the overall Investigative Reporter of
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Chairman and Founder of LEADERSHIP Group Limited, publishers of Leadership Newspapers and National Economy, Mr Sam Nda-Isiah, died on Friday, November 11, 2020, in Abuja. His sudden death has been greeted with lots of tributes and condolence messages from across the country. The 58 years media mogul, writer, politician and serial entrepreneur, according to a
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The media programmes scheduled for this week include 15th Wole Soyinka Award, launch among others between Monday, December 6- Saturday, December 12, 2020. The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details. 15TH Wole Soyinka Award For Investigative Reporting MONDAY, December 7, 2020 The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism Day 1 of
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After five attempts and three appearances on the shortlist of the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism, multiple award-winning investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo has emerged the 2020 winner of the Local Reporter category of the competition. In a press statement on Thursday by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Fisayo won for his undercover investigation on Nigeria’s criminal
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