Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari last week granted an interview to Daily Telegraph, UK. The exclusive chat conducted by the paper’s Chief Foreign Correspondent; Colin Freeman would later be controversial. Adediwura Aderibigbe, a Lagos based multimedia and public relations specialist writes on the controversy The online media was awashed with different claims, such that many Nigerians, […]
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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari last week granted an interview to Daily Telegraph, UK. The exclusive chat conducted by the paper’s Chief Foreign Correspondent; Colin Freeman would later be controversial. Adediwura Aderibigbe, a Lagos based multimedia and public relations specialist writes on the controversy The online media was awashed with different claims, such that many Nigerians,
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By Lekan Otufodunrin Based on what their lecturer had told them about print journalism, students of a Polytechnic who recently visited The Nation Newspapers on a study tour were not expecting to see anything glamourous at the company’s office. The students had been told that print journalists are not well paid like those in Advertising,
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By Seye Joseph @Seyetweets Obinna Emelike of Business Day Newspaper and Olatunji Olalade of The Nation Newspaper have won the 2014 CNN Multichoice African Journalists Award in the Culture and Health categories respectively. They emerged winners along with others at the Gala Awards ceremony held at Mlimani City Conference Centre, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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He was Deputy Editor of The Punch Newspapers when he interviewed me for employment as a reporter in 1987. Mr Ademola Osinubi was to later become the Editor, General Manager and Managing Director of the paper where I worked till 1999 when I resigned. I still recall how he ‘cajoled’ me to accept to be
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One of the attributes required to be a good journalist is to be a sceptic. Who else but a journalist requires evidence for claims as sceptics do? In the course of our work, we regularly find claims which we have to verify to properly inform and educate our audience. A sceptical mind that is based
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Not many professions compare with journalism in terms of being intensive and requiring so much time to the detriment of other important aspects of one’s life. Meeting deadlines, not missing stories, generating story ideas, editing copies, getting exclusives and many other tasks require so much time that you are constantly thinking about work, on and
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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka once told the story of how he was not employed at the defunct Daily Times Newspaper as a reporter for writing a short story instead of a news story during an employment test. He ended the story of the career path he opted for with the statement, “thank God
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In this article, I run the risk of indulging in self-praise. I plead in advance that it is deliberate for a good purpose. My approach to writing on media career development issues is to cite personal examples of what I have been privileged to experience and what has worked for me. I usually want to
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One of the most profound comments I have heard about the importance of thejournalism profession is one by Tetee Karnel, a Liberian female journalist. She spoke at a conference organized by The Media Project in Ghana for journalists from West Africa on the theme: “Journalism, Ethics and Religion” in 2011. “Journalism is not just a
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