After hosting 29 successive editions of its annual presentation, the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) qualifies to be described as Africa’s longest-running and most consistent media awards programme. 560 awards later in diverse fields of media work, DAME is a long-distance runner that has discharged its mandate creditably. That mandate is to give the […]
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The Executive Director of the International Center for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), Mr. Dayo Aiyetan, has advised journalists to abide by the ethics of the profession in their reporting. Aiyetan gave the advice while speaking as the guest speaker at the Campus Journalism Award organised by Youths Digest in Abuja on December 11, 2021. He emphasised
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Winners have emerged for the 2021 Campus Journalism Award organised by Youths Digest. A student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, AbdulWasiu Olookoba won the “Editor of the Year Award”. Olookoba beat Kareem Shamsudeen, from the University of Ibadan who was also shortlisted as a finalist. Fourteen other students from different tertiary institutions in Nigeria won
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Nowadays, the issue isn’t with why the media covers terrorism or problem-related issues; it is with how the media covers it. The media, given the circumstance of this digital age and publications by bloggers, on a whole, covers terrorist activities or problem-related issues by exaggerating anecdotes, especially about who is to blame, repeating the same
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Femi Falana is not a journalist. He is a lawyer. This man from Ekiti State is indeed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN and an activist. But, when he mounted the podium on December 3, 2021, to speak on: “Assessing Media Performance in Consolidating Nigeria’s Democracy: Citizen’s Verdict and Outlining an Agenda for the Future”,
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Olukunle Akinrinade of The Nation Newspaper has emerged the winner of the 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting Nigeria Investigative Reporter of the Year organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). Akinrinade also won the print category of the award along with other category winners during the award ceremony held on
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The Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has named Justina Asishana as its Journalist of the Year following her report on the security situation in the Shiroro local government area of Niger state in Nigeria She was announced as the winner after the 5th Africa Conference on Development Journalism held virtually on Tuesday 7th December 2021. The
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Friday, December 3, 2021, was celebrated worldwide as International Day for Persons with Disabilities. To mark the day, Hope Inspired Foundation for Women and Youths, HIFWY, a non-governmental organization in Nigeria, with funding from Disability Rights Fund, organized a Media Roundtable in Lagos to discuss how best to improve sexuality education and empowerment for women
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Details of media programmes ( Conference, Award, webinar, Dinner etc ) MONDAY, December 6, 2021 African Women in Media Conference 2021 #AWiM21 Opening Remarks Plenary Panel: Building Resilience Speakers: Sarah Macharia, Lina Attalah, Phathiswa Magopeni Mercy Frank Click here to register Sarah Macharia Lina Attalah Phathiswa Magopeni Mercy Frank Time: 9-10:30am CAT Reporting Women-
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A veteran journalist and Executive Director, Media Career Development Network (MCDN), Mr Lekan Otufodunrin has advised young media professionals to learn the fundamentals of journalism and be technologically compliant to thrive in today’s media industry. He gave the advice during the Ogun State Campus Journalism Summit organized by The Press Club, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic. The
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