Reading through the reports on three recent media awards and fellowship winners, Lekan Otufodunrin, media career development specialist highlights a number of things the winners did that gave them the edge over colleagues. 1. Write stories that have impact and result in action by authorities: Tobi Aworinde of Sunday Punch who recently emerged winner of […]
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Rhoda Olorunfemi, MCD Reporter A Communication and Development Consultant, Mr Tony Iyare has warned that journalism in Nigeria may go into extinction if current assaults launched against journalists are not curbed. Iyare stated this at the Media Roundtable to mark the ‘International Day To End Impunity For Crimes Against Journalists’, held by the International Press
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Rhoda Olorunfemi, MCD Reporter A Communication and Development Consultant, Mr Tony Iyare has warned that journalism in Nigeria may go into extinction if current assaults launched against journalists are not curbed. Iyare stated this at the Media Roundtable to mark the ‘International Day To End Impunity For Crimes Against Journalists’, held by the International Press
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Interested journalists have been invited to write investigative reports on pending high profile corruption cases in the country. The call is part of the Transparency and Anticorruption project due to terminate by the end of December, being implemented by the International Press Centre, Lagos. The Centre according to a statement by the Program Officer, Stella
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SACE is a five-year project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through a contract with Chemonics International has vacancy for a Media and Development Expert. The Expert will be responsible for developing training curriculum, modules and manuals/documentation on advanced media; and developing training that addresses identified key points. *Delivery of the training
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Editor of TheCable, Fisayo Soyombo on Wednesday won the Newcomer of the Year category of the 2016 Free Press awards, held in The Hague, Netherlands. He won ahead of Zimbabwean Tafadzwa Ufumeli and Albanian Mechman Huseynov, with his story entitled ‘Forgotten Soldiers’ — a five-part series exploring the agony of soldiers shattered by Boko Haram’s
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Jude Nwabuokei of Radio One 103.5FM, Lagos in this reporter’s diary recalls how he won a fellowship programme for journalists organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information and his memorable professional experience in New York. As a young broadcast journalist working in a Radio Station in a city like Lagos, there was a
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* Adelakun, The Punch, Dike, The Sun get N500,000 each Tobi Aworinde of Sunday Punch has emerged winner of the Journalist of the Year category of the 2016 Nigeria Breweries Golden Pen Award. He will get N1m and other package for winning the award. Sodiq Adelakun also of The Punch won the Photo Journalist of
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* Adelakun, The Punch, Dike, The Sun get N500,000 each Tobi Aworinde of Sunday Punch has emerged winner of the Journalist of the Year category of the 2016 Nigeria Breweries Golden Pen Award. He will get N1m and other package for winning the award. Sodiq Adelakun also of The Punch won the Photo Journalist of
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Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, Debo Adesina on October 20, 2016 delivered the University of Lagos Mass Communication Alumni Association Distinguished Lecture. In the lecture entitled Vessels in a storm, Adesina a 1986 graduate of the department reviewed the state of the journalism practice against the background of new media technological developments and offer tips
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