By Kelechi Amakoh With a pop culture orientation,’ News of the World’, a new newspaper is set to join the league of newspapers jostling for space in the print media market. The soon-to-be-published newspaper promises to adopt ‘human angle slants and flourishes’ reporting style. The brains behind the project are two returnees from abroad: Ekerete […]
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Multiple media award winner, Toyosi Ogunseye and Kingsley Ezeani have emerged winners of the Journalism and New Media prizes of the ‘The Future Awards Africa’ 2013. Ogunseye, Editor, Sunday Punch won the Journalism prize while Ezeani, Publisher of ‘Information Nigeria’ website bagged the New Media award. They were named winners at the award ceremony on
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Kelechi Amakoh reports on the launch of a report on rural poverty reporting in Nigeria Reportage of rural poverty issues by the print media in Nigeria is relatively low. This was one of the major the outcomes of a survey titled Monitoring Rural Poverty Reporting by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos in conjunction with
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New appointments and promotions have been approved by the Board of Directors of The Sun Publishing Limited, publishers of Sun Newspapers. The new appointments according to the Sun Newspaper of Wednesday of December 18 is to reinforce the position of the newspaper as the market leader, and the number one choice of readers and advertisers.
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By Amakoh Kelechi Journalists and media organisations whose work stood out amongst many have emerged winners of the 21st Nigeria Media Merit Awards (NMMA) held at the Ikogosi Warm Springs Resort, Ikogosi-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The Nation Newspaper won the Babatunde Jose Newspaper of the Year award beating The Guardian and The Punch. For the Dele
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By Kelechi Amakoh In a bid to promote investigative journalism in the country, journalists were rewarded at the 2013 Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Awards, WSIRA which held in Lagos December 9. Two journalists, Ini Ekott and Ruona Agbroko-Meyer of PREMIUM TIMES emerged joint Investigative Journalists of the Year 2013 with their entry: How Nigeria Squanders
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Lekan Otufodunrin, Journalist and Media carer specialist writes on the benefits of applying and winning media awards. Q: I have never applied for a media award even when I think I have good stories that can compete favourably with others. Is there anything wrong with my decision? A: There is nothing wrong with your decision
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Lekan Otufodunrin, Journalist and Media carer specialist writes on the benefits of applying and winning media awards. Q: I have never applied for a media award even when I think I have good stories that can compete favourably with others. Is there anything wrong with my decision? A: There is nothing wrong with your decision
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By Adediwura Aderibigbe, The Nation Journalists in the country have been urged to participate in Promasidor’s annual Quill Awards competition. The competition is designed to reward excellent news reporting. Promasidor’s Head of Legal/Public Relations Andrew Enahoro spoke on Wednesday on the competition when he visited The Nation in Lagos. Enahoro said participation in the award
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