In response to the specific needs of participants of the media career fix programme to enhance their careers, the Media Career Development Network compiled the following recommendations đ International & Local Opportunities Training opportunities exist at all career stages, both locally and internationally. To qualify for international programmes, demonstrate excellence in your editorial work […]
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Former Saturday Times Editor, Ms Angela Agoawike writes on her memorable experience working in the company. The old Daily Times was an institution, a training ground for young journalists with dreams. My dream then was to be a great reporter/journalist, and the institution gave me that opportunity. I started off as a reporter on
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Former Editor, Sunday Times , Mr Tunde Ipinmisho recalls his days at the newspaper, which he said had a team of some of the nation’s best talents. I fortuitously met the then Managing Director of the Daily Times, Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi in 1989 at a time I was searching for a bigger field of
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Former State House Correspondent of Daily Times, Lawal Ogienagbon writes on the centenary celebration of the Daily Times and his experience working in the company. IF Daily Times, as it was known, had really been around, the celebration of its 100th anniversary would have been a nationwide affair. The event would have shaken the
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Former Deputy Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) Dr Dele Omojuyigbe, writes on his one year work experience at the Daily Times Newspaper. Daily Times was a training ground for me. The day I resumed work there, I was also asked to start work at two soft sell magazine outfits as a
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Former Deputy Editor, Dr Emeka Nwosu, writes on his experience working at the Daily Times, noting that the newspaper was a great national institution. I came into the employment of DTN in 1987 after a competitive examination moderated by the Department of Mass Communications, University of Lagos, under the superintendence of Chief Segun
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Former Political Correspondent, Yemisi Fadairo writes on his sixteen-year sujourn at the Daily Times that shaped his professional life and understanding of journalism as both a calling and a public trust. As Daily Times marks its centenary, I cannot help but look back with gratitude, pride and a touch of sadness at what
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Group Executive Editor of ITREALMS Media Group, Mr Remmy Nweke, who won the Most Outstanding Promoter of the FOI Act category of the Goodluck Jonathan Freedom of Information Act Awards organised by the Media Rights Agenda, explains his motivation for promoting the act, trends of usage and compliance and how journalists can maximise the use
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Journalist and publisher of BONews, Blessing Oladujoye, who emerged as the winner of the Most Active User category of the FOI Act in the Goodluck Jonathan Freedom of Information (FOI) Awards, organised by the Media Rights Agenda, explains her motivation, experiences and challenges. What informed your use of FOI as much as you have?
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On the fifteenth anniversary of the signing of the Freedom of Information Act into law, we asked the Executive Director of the Media Rights Agenda (MRA), Mr Edetaen Ojo, if there has been an improvement in the use of the act by journalists and how it can be effectively used. The potential that the
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