Top journalists who worked with veteran journalist and former presidential spokesperson, Chief Duro Onabule who died at 83, on August 16, have paid glowing tributes to their former boss. In their tributes to the former Editor of National Concord and Chief Press Secretary to former President Ibrahim Babangida, they shared various insightful lessons they learnt […]
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If some publishers who are not journalists have their way, they will cast headlines that suit their purpose, disregarding professional headline casting principles. The Managing Director of a newspaper once met with his publisher who is a politician and they got talking about the coverage of the crisis in another party called ‘Congress National Party’
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Six media organisations in Africa have shared insights on their growth strategies and technological developments driving audience and advertising in their companies at the recent two-day regional summit by the International News Media Association (INMA). The virtual INMA Africa News Media Summit, held July 28-29, attracted 311 delegates from 38 countries supported by the Google
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What are the five key questions media owners and managers in Nigeria need to answer to have a better and deeper understanding of to record greater impact and sustainable progress? The Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Publications, Mr Lanre Idown suggested the key questions at the workshop on Journalism and Digitalisation: The Imperative of Good
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The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos Nigeria has expressed concern over recent utterances of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed threatening to sanction the BBC and Trust television for airing documentaries that allegedly glorified and fueled terrorism and banditry in Nigeria. In a report published by Premium Times on July 28,
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For failing to provide details on its proposed regulatory framework for social media and other online platforms through a “Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries”, the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has filed a suit against the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). In the suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja, MRA
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Fifty top media executives from Lagos, Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Edo and Delta States are to participate in a two-day workshop on Good Corporate Governance in the media organised by the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE). The workshop supported by the Lagos State Government will be declared open by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday
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Media Programmes, vacancies, application, training, Fellowship and their deadlines from today, Monday, 1 August – Thursday, 4th August 2022. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2022 FELLOWSHIP ADH Community Journalism Fellowship Applications for the second cohort are now open. Apply now if you are interested in improving the coverage of under-reported issues in local communities across Nigeria. Apply
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A Nigerian Journalist, Aanu Adeoye has joined the Financial Times (FT) as the West Africa Correspondent based in Lagos. His appointment was announced by the Africa Editor of FT, David Pilling @davidpilling in a tweet on August 1 Pilling wrote: “Thrilled to announce that @aanuadeoye is joining as our new West Africa Correspondent based in
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The Interactive Initiative for Social Impact and Dataphyte, media research, and data analytics organisation have trained journalists, civil society, and community-based actors on how to use data to drive national accountability through data-driven reporting and advocacy. The two-day training supported by MacArthur Foundation and Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism is aimed at training the
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