Channels Television has confirmed the death of a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Precious Owolabi serving with the organization. The 23-year-old was said to have died of a gunshot wound he sustained while covering the clash between the police and the Shiite protesters on Monday in Abuja. The management and […]
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Applications are open for the 2019 African Investigative Journalism Conference at Wits University. The African Investigative Journalism Conference is the premier annual gathering of African investigative journalists – a three-day international conference that focuses exclusively on investigative journalism. Highlights of the conference include skills training sessions, networking, promoting, collaboration and in-depth accounts of major investigative stories.
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Judy Nguta, Audience Development Manager of Conversation Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya was recently in Nigeria during which Lekan Otufodunrin and Rhoda Olorunfemi spoke with her on the operations of her organisation and other media issues. Tell us more about The Conversation Africa The Conversation Africa is a collaboration between journalists and the academic community.
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Mr Kunle Ajibade, Executive Director of TheNEWS/P.M.NEWS, read this review at the public presentation of Lanre Arogundade’s Media and Election: Professional Responsibilities of Journalists on 16 July 2019 in Lagos. Exactly forty years ago last month, one of Nigeria’s best journalists and editors, the assassinated Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch, Dele Giwa, wrote a piece in
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Wale Fatade in this piece wonders why journalists choose to see no evil and hear no evil whenever changes are effected in another media organisation. The sack of two editors of The Punch newspapers last week attracted barely a whimper in the media. Except for one or two online newspapers, no other medium thought
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Journalists have been urged to ensure that their reports are more data and evidence-based. The Editorial Chair of Nigeria Info, Rotimi Sankore made the call at the 11th Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series to mark the 85th birthday of Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. Sankore was one of the discussants at the Lecture organized by
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How long does the tenure of editors of The Punch Newspaper, Nigeria’s most widely read newspaper last? This question followed the forced resignation of the Daily editor of the paper, Martins Ayankola based on the management’s decision on an offensive cartoon illustrating a back-page column in the paper. The cartoon that illustrated a write-up titled
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has named his media team headed by the parliamentary correspondent of Channels Television, Olanrewaju Lasisi. The full list of members of the team according to a statement by Gbajabiamila is as follows: 1. Special Adviser on Media and Publicity – Olanrewaju Lasisi Until hi appointment,
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Lekan Otufodunrin writes an open letter to two editors of The Punch Newspapers asked to resign their appointment, one over an offensive cartoon and the other for an unexplained reason. Dear Martins Ayankola and Olabisi Ope Deji-Folutile I write to congratulate you on your exit from The Punch after years of meritorious service. I am
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The Guardian Newspaper may name a new Editor for its daily paper soon, following the non-renewal of the appointment of Abraham Ogbodo to continue to serve in the position. Ogbodo, former Sunday editor of the paper who was initially appointed the editor of all the titles in June 2016 completed the first three-year renewable tenure
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