The News Editor of the News Digest Press and 300-level student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi, has won the Best Writer award on Nigeria Campuses in the 4th Edition of the Nigeria Campus Awards 2021. The Nigeria Campus Awards which recognises excellent students in various categories received over 1,000 nominations including Best Artiste […]
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New executive and senior appointments have been announced by the board of directors of THISDAY Group for the newspaper and Arise News Channel. In the new appointments published by the newspaper on Tuesday, the Editor of the Sunday title, Shaka Momodu was named the Editor of THISDAY, Deputy Editor of THISDAY, Mr. Davidson Iriekpen, takes
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All things remaining equal, it will take at least 67 more years to close the average gender equality gap in traditional news media worldwide. This was one of the key findings of the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the largest research and advocacy initiative in the world on gender equality in news and journalism.
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A journalism lecturer at the Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ) Mike Osuji has published a new book titled African communication system in a global and digital age. The book is structured into two parts with the first part tagged: “concepts, channels and messages of African communication system”. It revealed, among others, membership of traditional African
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Applications have been invited from journalists and journalism students across the continent to submit entries for the 2021 African Fact-Checking Awards The awards are aimed at promoting the practice of fact-checking and making accurate information available to citizens of all countries across Africa. The 2021 categories include: • Fact-Check of the Year by a Working
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Pen Press Journalists, Promize Eze, popularly known as Chi Chi, a 300-Level student of Education Economics and Lawal Sofiyat, a final year student of Physics at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) have won the writing contest organized by News Digest Press. Promize Eze who emerged as the winner of the contest and Lawal Soffiyat bagged
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International development experts have called on the government to collaborate with youths to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa. The call was made at the Youth Sustainability Development Conference 2021 – Pan African Edition (YSDC) organized in partnership with Jet Escp, Panta Group, International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA), OXZY and Hofstede Insight
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Three Nigeria media organisations, Ripples Nigeria, Stears News Limited and Legit.ng are among 22 successful recipients for the Google News Initiative’s second Middle East, Turkey and Africa Innovation Challenge. The recipients were selected from 329 applications from 35 countries who responded to an open call for applications in February after a rigorous review, a round
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The Health Watch Foundation, operating as “Nigeria Health Watch” has a vacancy for the position of Editor based in Abuja. According to a vacancy announcement by the Foundation, the editor will be responsible for the production and publication of content for Nigeria Health Watch. He/she will be responsible for reviewing content, such as articles, and
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Cameroonian award-winning journalist and gender advocate, Commy Mussa and Veteran journalist and human rights activist have offered tips and suggestions on how to ethically report about minors and appropriately report court proceedings. Mussa: Don’t endanger, stigmatize children In Cameroon bloggers, NGOs, journalists do an amazing job at drawing our attention to issues that need our
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