Media Career Development Specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin reviews the trend of many journalists launching general interest websites and offers his candid view on options to consider. When I resigned from The Nation Newspaper in December 2018, some of my colleagues assumed that starting my own news website will be one of my options. They had […]
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Media Career Development Specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin writes on the need for journalists to have a vision for and mission for their career. In her last email message for 2021 titled Pain Pushes Until Vision Pulls, Thoela DeBoSe, a former Washington Post Reporter, wrote that her vision for 2022 is to relaunch her Career Change BootCamp online
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Star Presenter/Producer at ARISE NEWS Amaka Okoye has joined Deutsche Welle as its West Africa correspondent. She announced her movement in a LinkedIn Post on Tuesday with the post: “I am happy to announce that I have accepted an offer with Deutsche Welle as its correspondent covering West Africa.” She added to the post: To new beginnings #DWGirl
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A seasoned media professional, Mr Ayo Arowojolu has been appointed Head, Public Relations of Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to a press statement by the University’s Acting Registrar, Mr Olusola Aladesuru, Arowojolu is on Sabbatical from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) where he served as Assistant Director, Public Relations. Arowojolu who has
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The management of TheCable has named three young journalists in the company as the “most improved” journalists for 2021. The award is a new category added to the annual Journalist of the Year to recognise journalists in the newspaper “who have demonstrated industry, resilience and self-motivation as well as having produced impact stories during
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Multiple award-winning journalist and Head, Fact-Check at TheCable, Taiwo Adebulu, has been named the publication’s Journalist of the Year 2021. On Friday, the newspaper’s editors announced him as the recipient of the annual award which recognises journalists within the ranks of TheCable “who have demonstrated industry, resilience and self-motivation as well as having produced impact
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How much impact did Media Career Development Network make in 2021? below is a review of our modest accomplishments. We appreciate all organisations and individuals who made them possible. Support for students journalists and campus media On Thursday, December 30, 2021, Precious Ewuji of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti won the Revelation of the Year
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The 30th edition of Diamond Awards for Media Excellence ( DAME) has been held with The Punch Newspaper and its staff winning the majority of the awards. Some other media houses including Premium Times, Guardian, TVC, Nigerian Tribune, New Telegraph won some categories. Among others, The Punch won the Newspaper of the Year and Editorial
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Grace Atukpa who is visually impaired graduated with Higher National Distinction (HND) Distinction in Journalism from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Ogba, Lagos. The daughter of a former crime reporter, Cecilia Akpa who died over ten years ago, served with National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). Dr Mrs Grace Achum, a journalist
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, organized a media roundtable on promoting transparency and accountability in the education, water and health sectors in Nigeria. The event held in Lagos was attended by journalists from print, electronic, online outfits, students from tertiary institutions within and outside Lagos, as well as activists.
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