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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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Salawu appointed The Temple’s Head, Public Affairs & Media Relations

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Experienced media and communications strategist, Femi Salawu has been appointed as Head, Public Affairs and Media Relations of a foremost full-service agency, The Temple Company. Salawu, a former journalist is returning to the company almost three years after he left having begun as a pioneer staff in 2016. Prior to his appointment, Salawu was in

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Daily Trust’s Health Editor third in global reporting contest

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The Health Editor of Daily Trust Newspaper, Nigeria, Ojoma Akor has emerged as the third-place winner of the 2021 Global Nutrition and Food Security Reporting Contest for her story about a rural community’s efforts to stave off hunger in orphans. Leon Lidigu, a Kenyan journalist who revealed the struggles of a vulnerable community faced with malnutrition

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Education, Electricity reporting boosted by monitoring programme

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Reporting of Education and electricity in the Nigeria media has been enhanced under the Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP) on electricity and basic education project implemented by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). Ninety-one investigative stories were published in the two beats – 35 on electricity and 56 on education. The stories on electricity

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