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MEDIA PROGRAMMES THIS WEEK (November 8 – 14, 2021)

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Details of media programmes ( Training, Conference, Awards, Workshops and others) in Nigeria and globally. MONDAY, November 8, 2021 *Deadline for 2021, FATE SME Journalist Award https://bit.ly/FSMEJAwards *Investigative Journalism training on handling sources by Media Career Development Network Speaker: Taiwo Hassan Abiodun, Assistant Editor, Premium Times Time: 1-2pm Zoom TUESDAY, November 9, 2021 *Mentorship […]

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Two Nigerians nominated for Africa investigative journalism award

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Banjo Damilola, award-winning Nigeria investigative journalist and Yusuf Akinpelu, Head of Data Desk Premium Times Nigeria have been nominated for the Norbert Zongo (PAJI-NZ) African Prize for Investigative Journalism. Nominees for the investigative journalism award were drawn from four categories: newspaper press, radio, television and online press. Both Banjo and Akinpelu were nominated for the

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Profiles of new Nigerian Guild of Editors fellows

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The 17th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference 2021, held October 21 – 22, 2021, in Abuja, has come and gone. But, the successes and impart recorded by the event still lingers in the minds of reporters, editors, media houses and concerned stakeholders across the globe. The conference with the theme: “Media in Times of Crises: Resolving Conflict,

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Ex-NAN Acting MD, Jide Adebayo, dies at 66

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A former Acting Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chief Jide Adebayo, is dead. Adebayo died in a Lagos hospital on Thursday at the age of 66 during a brief illness. Retired Maj.-Gen. Lasisi Abidoye, a close friend of Adebayo, also the President of Omu-Aran Development Association (ODA), confirmed this in a

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Eight things women journalists can do together

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The original design of Images of Women by @simplysphiedesign had the title Things Women Can Do Together. When it was shared by the Executive Director/CEO of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting (WSCIJ), Mrs. Motunrayo Alaka, on some female journalists groups I belonged as a media mentor, it occurred to me I could

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Report: Digital media platforms making impact on low budgets amid threats

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In spite of often tiny budgets and constant online threats and attacks, a new global report has revealed that Digital media entrepreneurs are producing ground-breaking journalism and achieving a significant impact on their societies, The Inflection Point International report, published Thursday, November 4, 2021 by SembraMedia, a nonprofit that supports entrepreneurial journalists, in partnership with

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Scholars call for inclusion of Solution Journalism in curriculum

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Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State in Nigeria has initiated a campaign to incorporate Solutions Journalism (SoJo) in the Mass Communication curriculum in Nigeria. At the workshop for media educators in Ogun State tagged “Mainstreaming Solutions Journalism into Media Education and Practice”, scholars agreed that the National Universities Commission (NUC) and National Board for Technical Education

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Call for application: Investigative stories on the justice status of SGBV cases

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Reported and Unresolved Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) cases are the focus of a new call for grant application by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) from Nigerian professional journalists (full-time or freelance) from all media specialities. Applicants with a curious mind and interest in investigating the criminal justice status of Sexual and

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New Telegraph’s Elegbede wins NMMA Foreign Reporter of the Year 2021 Award

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The Board of Assessors of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMM) has adjudged multiple award-winning journalist, Wale Elegbede, as Nigeria’s Foreign Reporter of the Year 2021. Elegbede’s winning entry, ‘Foreign Missions: Underfunding, Corruption Battered Nigeria’s Image’, chronicled tales of woes, disappointments, ill-treatment, corruption, and poor services rendered to Nigerians by foreign missions, which ought

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How to protect female journalists against sexual harassments, discrimination

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Media organisations have been urged to develop and be willing to implement robust gender-inclusive policy to guide against sexual harassment and intimidation of journalists, especially female journalists. The gender policy must also ensure a measure of gender balance in the leadership structure of the organisations. The call was made by participants in a communique issued

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