I was recently reminded of one of the numerous blessings I should be grateful to God for as a journalist when I saw my first International Passport issued in 1997 with my first Visa to travel out of the country. “GRATIS”, meaning FREE, written on the Visa to the United Kingdom to attend the Advance […]
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Media Career Development Specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin, recalls how he made a futile passionate plea for one of his reliable reporters not to be sacked in a dream when he was Group News Editor in a national newspaper. I was on leave when the news filtered to me that one of my most hard-working state correspondents
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If some publishers who are not journalists have their way, they will cast headlines that suit their purpose, disregarding professional headline casting principles. The Managing Director of a newspaper once met with his publisher who is a politician and they got talking about the coverage of the crisis in another party called ‘Congress National Party’
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme has taught me one big lesson, ‘’you can do so much with very little’’, writes Osaruonamen Ibizugbe, Project Officer, Media in Gender at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development. Before now, I never believed I had any trait of leadership in
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Assistant Business Editor of The Punch, Femi Azu on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, had a send-off ceremony held for him by colleagues following his resignation. In this Facebook post, Azu, who is returning to BUSINESS DAY as News Editor, recalled his memorable stay in The Punch and appreciated the support of many senior colleagues and
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In continuation of his songs inspired articles, Media Career Development Specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin writes on the desire of journalists to be well renumerated, based on the song THIS YEAR sung by Afropop musician, Iledare Oluwajuwonlo, popularly known as Jaywon. This year is already in its second month, but I can’t help repeatedly singing the song
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Lekan Otufodunrin recalls the angry reaction of Late Ogun State correspondent of The Guardian Newspaper, Tayo Awotunsin to his report not being sent by his Telex operator in the pre-Internet journalism days. Long before the use of electronic mail and other new media devices for sending messages, newspaper state correspondents used to send stories to
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Tony Ademiluyi, Co-Founder of The Vent Republic Media – www.theventrepublic.com and a freelance writer, shares his media entrepreneurship experience offers advice for aspiring publishers. Slightly over a decade ago when I finished the mandatory National Youths Service Corps, I was confident that I would conquer the media world. My dream was to work for
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Unknown to me, my writing songs-inspired articles did not start recently with Let Nothing kill your Journalism vibes based on Bloody Samaritan by Ayra Starr which I published on November 12, 2021. The first time was July 2012 when I wrote the article with the headline of this piece. I remembered the article as I
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After listening to a song by Nigerian singer and songwriter Azeez Adeshina Fashola, known professionally as Naira Marley based on his tour of the United States, Media Career Development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin recalls his first time in the US. After I wrote two songs inspired articles, Let Nothing Kill Your Journalism Vibes, based on Ayra Starr’s
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