By Kelechi Amakoh The International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) will on November 9 honour two United States of America journalists, Chris Wallace and Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson at its Awards Dinner in Washington D.C. Chris Wallace is a Fox News anchor, while Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson works as a Correspondent with the National Public Radio. ICFJ President, […]
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Despite criticisms of unethical journalism practice in the social media space, senior media practitioners have urged journalists to embrace the new age media without neglecting the ethics of the media profession. They made the call at a recent media colloquium organised to celebrate the 60th birthday of columnist and publisher of Genevive magazine, Betty Irabor
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By Kelechi Amakoh The annual Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalism Fellowship is calling for applications from journalists from developing countries and countries with economies in transition. The deadline for the application is May 21. The four weeks programme at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City is slated to hold from September 11–29, 2017. The
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Five Nigerians developers along with others from the continent had their achievements and products celebrated at the Facebook’s annual developer F8 conference (www.FBF8.com), held in San Jose, California, on April 18 and 19. African developers at the event shared the stage with Facebook and developers worldwide showcasing innovative products and services they have created for
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The three former Al Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt for more than 400 days have joined other journalists, artists and activists in an Amnesty International campaign to demand the release of more than 120 journalists jailed in Turkey following last summer’s failed coup. Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohammed added their voices to the
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The International Press Centre (IPC), has condemned the murder of Mr. Famous Giobaro of the Bayelsa State-owned radio station, Glory FM 97.1, who was shot dead by unknown gunmen at his residence on Sunday, April 16, 2017. Director of IPC, Mr. Lanre Arogundade in a statement on April 17 said that the killing of the journalist
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RED-Africa’s top omni-media company has launched Church Culture, a church communication agency. The agency was launched on Sunday, April 16, 2017 with a Rubbin’ Minds Easter special on Channels Television themed ‘Discussions on the Media and the Church’. Church Culture according to RED will provide communication solutions to churches towards achieving its core mandate of propagating the
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Amplify, Africa’s first paid-fellowship for content creators, has graduated its inaugural cohorts of three teams of young storytellers from Rwanda, Kenya and Nigeria. The teams presented their final projects to an all-star panel of Africa’s leading business, media and technology personalities on Friday 7 April in Nairobi, Kenya. African Media Agency (AMA) reports that the Fellowship was
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Amplify, Africa’s first paid-fellowship for content creators, has graduated its inaugural cohorts of three teams of young storytellers from Rwanda, Kenya and Nigeria. The teams presented their final projects to an all-star panel of Africa’s leading business, media and technology personalities on Friday 7 April in Nairobi, Kenya. African Media Agency (AMA) reports that the Fellowship was
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March 2017 Online #MediaCareerQ&A For journalists thinking of running a Non-Governmental Organisation, here are some useful advice to consider. Betty Abbah Executive director at Cee-Hope Nigeria I call it going the less-travelled road, ditching the age-long stance of neutrality and jumping into the ‘ditch’ with the people to fight oppression, right wrongs and or bring
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