Abimbola Otusanya of FAAJI 106.5FM, Lagos recalls her ten-year broadcast journalism journey which almost did not start due to a speech defect she was said to have had. I became an undergraduate of the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, at the University of Ilorin by mistake. That was 1997, four whole years after secondary school; […]
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Olubunmi Fagade Ekhator, Publisher of Afroline Magazine in Italy writes of her experience of working from home since March 5, 2020, due to the lockdown over Coronavirus The first time I heard about this virus was early January. A friend who works for the United Nations warned about a kind of virus ravaging in Wuhan,
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What does it take to become a leader in the newsroom? Lekan Otufodunrin offers some nuggets for aspiring journalists Know your job very well and do it even if you are not acknowledged. It will count for you sooner or later in your organization or somewhere else. Do more than you are assigned to do
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Wale Fatade reviews media reporting in Nigeria and says “our journalism is bland and devoid of the humanity and empathy that can and might, galvanize citizens into action.” Two recent happenings reminded me of my pet theory of “humanizing” journalism practice in Nigeria. Pardon me if humanizing journalism sounds oxymoronic, after all, what is
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Oloruntimilehin Ayomide, an intern with Media Career Development Network (MCDN), from Lagos State Polytechnic, writes on his experience during a visit to The Nation Newspapers headquarters in Lagos As an intern, I had my first media advocacy tour experience with the Journalists for Christ (JFC) team that visited The Nation Newspapers office in Lagos on
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Wale Fatade in this piece wonders why journalists choose to see no evil and hear no evil whenever changes are effected in another media organisation. The sack of two editors of The Punch newspapers last week attracted barely a whimper in the media. Except for one or two online newspapers, no other medium thought
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Amidst the trending discussion on the rape allegation against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Kingsely Obom-Egbulem asks in a Facebook post how safe newsrooms are for female journalists and interns. It’s judgment day folks and this question has become pertinent since we have suddenly woken up to the need to reconcile
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Don’t worry if you have not heard or known of the above-named school. There is no school officially so named, but it has produced some of the best journalists in this country. The former University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State does not have a department of Mass Communication nor offers
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Lekan Otufodunrin once shared the post below with colleagues on a Whatsapp group for Online Editors. The post is reproduced below for the benefit of other online editors and prospective ones on opportunities they need to know of. Dear colleagues, Forgive me if my advice in this post is elementary and you don’t need to
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Lekan Otufodunrin, former Managing Editor at The Nation writes on how he hired some young graduates based on their skills and not their certificates An alert from LinkedIn recently reminded me that one of my former younger colleagues at The Nation Newspaper, Olowe Praise has clocked two years in the service of the organisation. How time
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