Sports

My unforgettable sports reporting experiences – Ojeikere

The Editor, Sporting Life, Ade Ojeikere recently clocked 60. In this interview with Adeyinka Akintunde, he recalls his memorable work experience covering national and international sporting competitions and offers advice for excelling in journalism. You are a celebrated sports journalist, can you recall your journey into Sports Journalism. I give credit to the former Managing […]

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media

Vacancies: Photojournalism training consultants

African Women in Media (AWiM) has a number of PAID training consultancies for interested experienced photojournalists. The vacancies are in this link  http://africanwomeninmedia.com/vacancy-training-consultant-photojournalism/… The consultants will develop training packages for Photojournalists in Africa. Deadline for the application is  25 Sept 2020  This training project aims to build the capacity of African photojournalists in Africa. The consultant

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MEDIA

COVID-19, campaign fund accountability: IPC, MRA to train journalists using FOI Act

The International Press Centre (IPC) has concluded plans to train 25 journalists on the use of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act for investigative reports of political campaign finance and COVID-19 accountability issues. The two-day training to hold in Abuja is planned in partnership with Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and funded through Component 4b: Support

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content

How to stand out as content creators – Otufodunrin

Executive Director of Media Career Development Network in August featured in a Facebook Live chat with Ruth Olurounbi, editor and communications manager on the Content Creator in Nigeria’s Post-COVID future of media. His responses during the chat are published below. Who is a content creator? Put simply, a content creator is someone who creates content

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media

Media Programmes THISWEEK September 14- 19, 2020

  Media Programmes scheduled to hold this week include training, call for entries among others between Monday, September 14-Saturday, September 19, 2020). The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details:  Monday, September 14, 2020 Africa’s first independent fact-checking website invite for a special project manager closes today. Qualified applicant will be responsible

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technologies

Africans urged to embrace new technologies to tell their stories

Chair of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Information for All Programme, Ms Dorothy Gordon, has charged Africans to embrace emerging technologies for telling and promoting their own stories. Gordon gave the charge at The Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN) 7th Annual and 1st Virtual Conference with the

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