In the inaugural February 9, 2021 edition of #MediaSchoolNotes we shared some helpful reflective thoughts for journalists and media organisations. *It’s not the number of stories you publish on your websites that matters, it’s the quality of the stories, how well you are able to optimise it, how engaging your social media posts is and […]
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On the February edition of our weekly #MediaSchoolNotes weekly session on Twitter, we briefly addressed four key career questions journalists usually want answers for. Are there media jobs for young graduates? There are not enough for every job seekers, but the few that are available demands proofs of editorial content and production one has done.
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Executive Director of the International Press Centre and former Features Editor of the defunct National Concord, Lanre Arogundade pays tributes to his former editor Mr Isikak Essien who clocks 70 recently. It was a near tussle. Tunji Bello, Former National Concord’s Political Editor and strong insider in Publisher Late Chief M.K.O Abiola’s presidential campaign had
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Germany-based Publisher of The African Courier, Mr Femi Awoniyi in this online interview, speaks on his experience as a Magazine publisher for 23 years, the state of the media and future of the industry. You recently announced the relaunch of the print edition of your magazine due to what you explained to be the need
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A former staff of an Abuja-based media organisation who prefers to remain anonymous shared this really unfortunate work experience. It’s a familiar story of the kind of abuses some media owners are perpetrating and need to stop. I joined a popular Abuja-based newspaper publishing company in 2008, shortly after graduating from the higher institution and
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The Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) has assured its students of the provision of the best learning environment, including constant upgrade and acquisition of the state-of-the-art equipment. Acting Provost of the institution, Mr Gbenga Adefaye who gave the assurance on Wednesday, February 17 at the matriculation of new students said facilities to meet the current
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With the increasing number of students seeking media internship, it’s time for media training institutions to come up with new approaches to maximising available opportunities. Here is a list of what we think they should be considering to ease the search for internship placements for students. *Get familiar with the present situation in media organisations.
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The African Courier, a news platform for the African community in Germany, has relaunched its print edition after four years of being off the newsstand. The magazine launched in 1998 as a bimonthly went fully digital in 2017 and discontinued the print edition to fully focus on the development of its online platform to
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Dayo Emmanuel writes on discussions on media practice in the country at the launch of Nigeria Media Capacity Development Report 2020 Based on the content of the Nigeria Media Capacity Development Report 2020 by Media Career Development Network (MCDN) launched on February 5 Nigerian journalists cannot claim not to have various training opportunities and programmes
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The former Manager, Editorial Training and Language Control of The Punch Newspaper, Mr Seth Akintoye who retired from the company in June last year, left earlier than he wanted to. In his memoir titled Twist and Turns of Life: My birth, Career and Faith published in January, this year, Akintoye explained that his decision to
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