Various media programmes, including lectures, training, workshops and others by various organisations will hold this week July 20-25, 2020. The programmes are listed below with details. Compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga Monday, July 20th, 2020 The International Symposium on Online Journalism will for the first time in its 21-year history, not hold its traditional in-person conference. ISOJ […]
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Media Career Development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin reviews the recent award of relief funds for media organisations by Google and explains the selection process and other ways of getting support. If your media organization applied for the Google $5,000 Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for news organisations to support them to increase their capacity to cover the
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Communication Specialist, Femi Babatunde pays tributes to CEO, Diamond Publications. Publisher of Media Review, Mr Lanre Idowu on his birthday Today, 19th July is Mr Lanre Idowu’ Birthday. Idowu is one of Nigeria’s most accomplished and respected journalists. He is a media evaluator and trainer par excellence. Editor-in-Chief, Media Review and Supervising Trustee, Diamond Awards
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A lecturer at Lagos Business School (LBS), Dr Eugene Ohu, has won a grant of $234,000 from Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc (TWCF) to conduct two-year virtual reality research. According to a statement by the LBS, the grant was awarded under TWCF’s Global Innovations for Character Development (GICD) initiative. The research project titled “Teaching Children Empathy
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Six Nigerian journalists have been named as 2020 BudgIT/Civic Hive Media Fellows. The journalists are Taiwo Adebulu, an investigative reporter with TheCable; Frank Ikpefan, Education and Labour reporter at The Nation Newspaper; Osaruonamen Ibizugbe, Correspondent with ITV Abuja; Babatunde Okunola, Content lead, Royal FM Ilorin; Gbenga Ogundare, Freelance Investigative Journalist and Kelechuckwu Iruoma, Freelance Investigative
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The need for Journalists to include relevant data in their reports and understand how to critically analyse and visualize data for the public to understand were the focus of the Data Journalism Clinic organized for Journalists in Niger state last week. The training which was organized by Media Mentors Network in collaboration with the Technology
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By Dayo Emmanuel “Don’t be afraid, there is prosperity in this business, but you have to know what to do next and be intentional.” These were the encouraging words of accomplished media trainer, Taiwo Obe for upcoming and other journalists at the webinar marking his 60th birthday last Thursday. The founder of The Journalism Clinic
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Fifteen Nigerian publications, mainly online newspapers are among beneficiaries of the $5,000 grant and other amount from the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund offered by Google to support news organisations in developing countries to increase their capacity to cover the COVID-19 pandemic. Available confirmation indicate that beneficiaries of the Fund in Nigeria are Aledeh.com, City Mirror News,
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Journalists participating in the virtual media trainings by The Co-Builders and Media Career Development Network have the opportunity of competing for the CoBuilders Innovators Award Competition. The winner of the Innovators Competition Award will be the one individual or team able to plan, design, and initiate an idea that is both impactful to the society
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Rafiqul Islam Montu, Coastal Journalism Specialist from Bangladesh is an accomplished award-winning journalist. In this interview with Media Career Development Network, he explains the concept of Coastal Journalism he initiated and its impact among other issues. What was your journalism background before commencing the Costal Journalism initiative? I am a coastal man. I was born
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