Abdulwarees Solanke, Ag. Deputy Director of Strategic Planning & Corporate Development Voice of Nigeria pays tribute to two of his mentors in his media career. Mentors come as rainbow, in different colours, all appealing. Their roles in our lives remain the same. They give us direction. They bring out the best in us. They lead us out of […]
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Blessing Oladunjoye, Publisher, BONews reports on the recent conference on improving and regulating reporting of women in West Africa. The Regulation of media content has been identified as one of the effective keys to achieving positive reporting of women in the media in West Africa. Concerned by the underreporting of women in the media in
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Journalists seeking employment need to pay attention to essential skills media houses want from staff they want to employ. Having the relevant certificates may just not be enough if you don’t have the enhanced skills outlined in current vacancies by media houses. Even for journalists who have been long on the job, they need to
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Three top media houses, The Punch, Daily Trust and BusinessDay have vacancies for interested applicants. Daily Trust is seeking to employ a full-time Sub-Editor, while The Punch has vacancies for Investigative reporters, Copy editors, mobile App developer and Project Accountant. BusinessDay requires graduate trainees. Details of the vacancies and requirements are as follows: DAILY TRUST
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Former Head of Audience Engagement at BusinessDay Newspaper, Yvette Uloma Dimiri is now the Growth Editor of Stears Business. In this interview with Media Career, Dimiri who says she loves day-dreaming and talking about the future of Media speaks about her stay in BusinessDay, the need for improving audience engagement and other issues. You
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Voice of Nigeria (VON) is set to hold a-day seminar to mark World Radio Day on February 13. The seminar according to a statement by the Assistant Director, Strategic Planning and Corporate Development of the broadcast station, Abdulwarees Solanke is to interrogate how radio broadcasting can survive the tempest of underfunding in the age of
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The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) has invited application for its Open Contract Reporting Project OCRP, funded by MacArthur Foundation. The ICIR concluded the first phase of this project last December and is about to commence the second phase which aims to build the capacity of Nigerian journalists to investigate and report on budgetary
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Before winning awards and participating in fellowships, journalists need to find relevant ones. Lekan Otufodunrin shares tips on how to find them. –Get a list of organisations that organise awards and have fellowship programmes. Search online for an updated list of annual fellowships and awards by various organisation to know the details of requirements and
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Media Career Development Network recently held a workshop on Maximising media fellowships and awards. Below are some of the tips offered by Media Career Development expert, Lekan Otufodunrin Apply for as many as possible, chances are that you may not be successful the first, second or third time. There are many applicants each time there
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Review of 25 years of THISDAY Newspapers operation with an amazing success story and failed opportunities that could have made it a better paper. When THISDAY Newspaper made its debut in 1994 at the height of the agitation for the annulment of the June 12 election and the proscription of leading newspapers like The Punch,
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