By Olaitan Osola The Nigerian media has been charged to rise up to their responsibility of making the government accountable to the citizens. This call was made by Mrs. Chioma Kanu, an official of the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health {PACFaH} during a courtesy visit of the team to The Nation Newspaper […]
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By Olaitan Osola The Nigerian media has been charged to rise up to their responsibility of making the government accountable to the citizens. This call was made by Mrs. Chioma Kanu, an official of the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health {PACFaH} during a courtesy visit of the team to The Nation Newspaper
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Lekan Otufodunrin writes on his experience with Mass Communication students who don’t know enough of the profession. I meet them regularly. They come looking for internship opportunities while in school or jobs when they graduate. “Do you read newspapers?” I usually ask whenever I decide to drill them. Their responses usually betrayed most of them
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By Lekan Otufodunrin I meet them regularly. They come looking for internship opportunities while in school or jobs when they graduate. “Do you read newspapers?” I usually ask whenever I decide to drill them. Their responses usually betrayed most of them no matter how hard they try to cover up for their “unpardonable sin” of
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The Publisher and Founder of The Cable Online Newspaper, Simon Kolawole has been appointed a Director of Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability & Professionalism (LEAP) Africa , a nonprofit organization. Kolawole was appointed along with Claire Omateseye, Founder and Managing Director of JNC Nigeria Limited and Rabi Isma, Director, Leadership and Organisational Development, Etisalat Nigeria. Others on
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Olayinka Oyegbile, Deputy Editor, The Nation on Sunday writes on his recent re-union with his former boss at The Guardian, Alhaji Rasaq Adedigba who “painstakingly taught practical sub editing, a world away from whatever theories learnt in our various institutions.” More than a decade and a half ago that we both parted ways in The
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The Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists is now accepting applications from professional journalists from developing countries for its 2016 fellowship program. The application deadline is March 18, 2016. The fellowships are available to radio, television, print and web journalists, age 25 to 35, from developing countries who are interested in coming to New York to
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Are women journalists marginalised? This was the topic of discussion at a round-table discussion organised by Journalism Clinic, a media training organisation in Lagos. Lande ABUDU reports on the outcome of the programme. “Gentlemen of the press” was the title of a Broadway play in 1928. The following year, it was adapted into an all-talking
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Wakili Digital Media, a media consultancy is recruiting the following staff for an FM Station in Abuja, Nigeria. Head of News Qualification Minimum of Bachelors degree/ HND in Mass Communication/related fields. A PG qualification in communication will be an advantage. Skills • Must be able to provide leadership and guidance in a radio newsroom. •
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Nigerian journalists have a chance to participate in Africa’s first data-driven investigative journalism initiative with $500,000 in grants and technical support for reportage that changes lives. The new impactAFRICA initiative which was launched last week will seek to support pioneering data journalism that tackles development issues, such as public healthcare, in six initial African countries:
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