From Wednesday, August 27 to Sunday, August 31, 2014, members of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) will gather in Katsina, for this year’s Nigerian Editors’ Conference (ANEC). This week’s editions of the MCD Diary will be devoted to writing about issues relating to what editors do and how they can improve on their job. […]
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One of the attributes required to be a good journalist is to be a sceptic. Who else but a journalist requires evidence for claims as sceptics do? In the course of our work, we regularly find claims which we have to verify to properly inform and educate our audience. A sceptical mind that is based
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Not many professions compare with journalism in terms of being intensive and requiring so much time to the detriment of other important aspects of one’s life. Meeting deadlines, not missing stories, generating story ideas, editing copies, getting exclusives and many other tasks require so much time that you are constantly thinking about work, on and
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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka once told the story of how he was not employed at the defunct Daily Times Newspaper as a reporter for writing a short story instead of a news story during an employment test. He ended the story of the career path he opted for with the statement, “thank God
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In this article, I run the risk of indulging in self-praise. I plead in advance that it is deliberate for a good purpose. My approach to writing on media career development issues is to cite personal examples of what I have been privileged to experience and what has worked for me. I usually want to
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One of the most profound comments I have heard about the importance of thejournalism profession is one by Tetee Karnel, a Liberian female journalist. She spoke at a conference organized by The Media Project in Ghana for journalists from West Africa on the theme: “Journalism, Ethics and Religion” in 2011. “Journalism is not just a
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At a recent communication conference, I listened for the first time, to Jimi Tewe, CEO of Inspiro Consulting and was intrigued by some thoughts he shared on career advancement. I later bought four CDs of his past conferences which I have listened to thrice and have been meditating on some of the very inspiring
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Journalists in the developing world who are less than 30 years of age on or before November 25, 2014 has been called to enter for 2014 UK Foreign Press Association (FPA) Awards which will form part of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist FPA Award winner. Interested applicants must be working in countries
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On Thursday, I had the honour of being the Chairman at the 2014 Graduation of Champions International Schools, Magboro in Ogun State. The programme was the 10th anniversary of the school whose founding Chairman is Fola Adekeye, international journalist, multi media award winner and teacher. I left the programme very proud of being a journalist.
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