Lekan Otufodunrin recently participated in a tweet chat on #NewsroomPolitics. His shares his views and that of others on the issue in this piece. I am not sure if I have been a victim of newsroom politics in my about thirty years of being a journalist. I probably have been without knowing. I have been […]
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Iyabo Oyawale, work-at-home mum, author , seminar speaker, business growth strategist, retired-but-not-tired journalist and Internet nerd in her latest write up on her website askiyabooyawale.com writes on lessons journalism can teach you about life. Click and read: More about Oyawale later and what journalists can learn from her new line of work.
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Simon Ateba, publisher of SimonAtebaNews on Simonateba.com challenges journalists to embrace the future and position themselves for the incoming opportunities offered by the new media. You see, you all know my story. Most of you read late last year how I was arrested at the Minawao camp in Cameroon’s far north while trying to investigate the
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Lekan Otufodunrin, journalist and media career development specialist counsels journalists thinking of quitting the profession. Years ago, some United States newspaper editors in a mock exercise were asked to counsel their reporters on the values of the profession and urge them not to quit. All of them, except one, gave one reason or the other
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Gilbert Alasa, award winning journalist and blogger writes on the death of the traditional media and the media of the future. Blogs. Digital media. Data. Apps. Proprietary platforms. Content marketing. SEO. These are just some of the jargons that most journalists just don’t want to hear these days. And the reasons are simple: they just
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Lekan Otufodunrin, journalist and media career development specialist, paints a gloomy picture of the state of the media in Nigeria and suggests options open to traditional journalists to remain relevant in the industry. Have you ever been on board a plane and the pilot announced that passengers should prepare for crash-landing due to some circumstances
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Lekan Otufodunrin, journalist and media career development specialist, paints a gloomy picture of the state of the media in Nigeria and suggests options open to traditional journalists to remain relevant in the industry. Have you ever been on board a plane and the pilot announced that passengers should prepare for crash-landing due to some circumstances
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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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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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