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Vacancies: Reporters, Investigative Journalists, Copy Editors

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A leading Nigerian newspaper is looking to employ reporters, investigative journalists and copy editors. The requirements and other details according to an announcement on the Facebook page of Investigative Journalist and Founder, Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), Fisayo Soyombo are below: REPORTERS The ideal candidates are preferably young with excellent writing skills. Any degree is […]

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How we are repositioning campus journalism – NUCJ President

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President of the National Union of Campus Journalists (NUCJ), Samuel Ajala, in this interview with Abdulrasheed Hammad, unveiled the agenda and programmes towards repositioning the union. The plans include a partnership with media organizations and professionals in the country and measures to enhance press freedom in Nigeria campuses. Your executive has been up and running with

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Kenya: Lessons from Gender-Sensitive Storytelling training

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Sixty journalists in Kenya have been trained on gender-sensitive COVID-19 reporting by the Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK). Marceline Nyambala, the association’s executive director said the two-day training was part of its sensitisation programmes that seek to promote balanced reporting in the Kenyan media space. “There’s is an imbalance in gender reporting, and

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Science Journalism in COVID-19 Era

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Keynote by Martins Oloja, Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian, at the Nigerian Academy of Science 2021Media Award Dinner at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, June 18, 2021. I would like to thank the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) for the invitation to deliver this keynote on science journalism at this time. I have been

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Trust in news increase in Nigeria, globally

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Trust in news is on the increase worldwide, including Nigeria in the wake of the pandemic according to the Digital News Report 2021 released on Wednesday. The Report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, UK, is the most comprehensive annual report on news consumption worldwide. This year’s

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Pulitzer: Insights for winning global journalism awards

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One thing I like to pay attention to at media awards ceremonies is not only who the winners were, but the reasons they won. I pay attention to the verdict of the judges who assessed the entries and why they preferred the winning entries out of the whole lot they looked through. Some keywords usually

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Ajaja (The Punch), Fayemi (VON) win Science Media Award

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A Correspondent of The Punch Newspaper, Tunde Ajaja and Assistant Chief Producer of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) Funke Fayemi are the winners of the 2020 National Academy of Science (NAS) Science Media Award. Ajaja won the print category, while Fayemi is the winner of the broadcast category out of the 47 entries for the

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‘How to survive the digital disruption in the media industry’

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His journey to becoming the Editor-in-Chief of two top digital media platforms in the country is not typical. As he admitted, Bayo Olupohunda, Editor-in-Chief of Opera News has been a bit of an outsider having not really taken up a full-time job while writing in the traditional media space. From The Guardian to the defunct

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Dear Reporter: How editors should mentor their staff

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What kind of hands-on training and tutelage can editors give their reporters on the job? Below is an excellent example contained in a letter pioneer Assistant Editor, later Editor and Editor-In-Chief, of The Guardian, Femi Kusa wrote to Collins Obibi, then a reporter on August 7, 1991. The letter contained in the book The Making

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Book launch: My experience documenting history of movie industry – FAJ

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Many guests arrived on time for the virtual public presentation of Reflections: An Anthology of thoughts on Nigerian Movie Industry – Pioneers, Creativity & Tenacity, written by veteran journalist and media trainer, Femi Akintunde-Johnson, popularly known as FAJ. It was scheduled for 5 pm on June 15, 2021. The formal presentation of the book which

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