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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DOWNLOAD COPY OF NIGERIA MEDIA CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2020 Holding webinars, online meetings, virtual programmes were not part of the plans of media support organizations for 2020. The year however turned out to be a period of largely remote trainings and other virtual engagements due to the Coronavirus pandemic protocols that did not allow for
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The number of practising journalists and media professionals with doctorate degrees in Media and Communication is increasing with the recent award of PhD by the School of Media and Communication at Pan-Atlantic University (PAU) and thesis defence at the School of Communication, Lagos State University, (LASU). Among those who graduated at the 17th convocation ceremony
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Tributes have begun pouring in for legendary CNN interviewer Larry King who passed away on Saturday at 87. Ora Media revealed in a social media post that King died in Cedars Sinai hospital, in Los Angeles, where he had been hospitalised. King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and
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Four new roles with the Gates Foundation project – two in Lagos and two in Nairobi – are vacant for covering West and East Africa respectively, at the BBC Africa. In each location, BBC Africa says it is hiring a Senior Journalist reporter and a Journalist to work as part of a small team on
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A new executive has been elected for the National Union of Campus Journalists, Nigeria, (NUCJ) with Samuel Ajala, of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti elected as the President. Ajala who was Public Relations Officer in the outgoing executive scored 88 votes to defeat his opponent, Abdulbasit Abdulazeez who had five votes. Others elected in the
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has invited story pitches from Nigerian journalists from all genres of the media with interest in investigating the intersection between COVID-19, access to information and misinformation, to submit story pitches for consideration. Deadline for submission of pitches is Saturday, 30 January 2021 | 11:59 pm (WAT). The
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