In celebration of International Women’s Day, we had the opportunity to interview Ms. Maureen Chigbo, the First Female President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) in Nigeria. With a focus on this year’s theme, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.” Ms. Chigbo shares insights with BLESSING OSEMOBOR, on the role of GOCOP […]
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Oluyemi Arowosola Michael is a Fact-checker with Cable Newspaper. He has his first degree in History and Diplomatic studies and a Master’s degree in History and Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos. Despite being a person with a disability, he is a fact-checker, translator, and reporter. In this interview with Peace Oladipo, he
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Just when it seemed he was going to focus on being the publisher of Communiqué, a media and tech analysis newsletter with over 35,000 subscribers, David Adeleke took up the offer of being the Africa Editor at Rest of World. A graduate of Mass Communication/Media Studies from Covenant University, Otta, Adeleke had earlier headed Business
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Queen Esther Iroanusi, formerly a Senior Political Reporter with Premium Times recently joined the Norwegian Embassy in Nigeria as the new Political and Development Adviser. In this brief chat, she spoke about her new job, how she got it and other details. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French language and Literature from
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Olatunji Olaigbe is an international freelance journalist and the Editor-in-Chief of the Union of Campus Journalists, University of Ilorin. The winner of the 2021 IOM West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards, his reports have been featured in a variety of publications, including Al-Jazeera, Vice Magazine, WIRED, The Record by Recorded Future, HumAngle, Rest of
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Sunday Awosoro of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) recently won ‘Best Budgetary Tracking and Procurement story award’ in the Alfred Opubor Next-Gen Award organized by the Center for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and ‘Upcoming writer’ by Youth Digest Campus Journalism in December 2022. The development journalist and fact checker speaks with Peace Oladipo on
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Until September 2022, she was the Editor of HumAngle+ and had earlier served as Managing Editor and Head of the Newsroom at HumAngle Media. Anita Eboigbe, Co-founder of Inside Nollywood and former Film Journalist/Box Office Analysis Lead at the News Agency of Nigeria in this interview with Lekan Otufodunrin speaks on her new role at
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Concerned about the poor coverage of news and activities in Taraba State in the national media when he was there for national youth service in 2011/12, Ayodele Samuel, a graduate from the Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos started writing about the state on social media and other platforms. In 2016, he launched the Taraba
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Starting out as a campus journalist and student unionist in his university days, Mr Lanre Arogundage has practised as a print and broadcast journalist and is today the Executive Director of the International Press Centre, Lagos. In this interview with Media Career Development conducted by Adeku Abdulmumini, Blessing Osemobor and Blessed Yovo, Arogundade who is
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Titilope Fadare, an award-winning multimedia journalist with Premium Times is a Mobile Journalism Trainer. She is a 2021 Fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Programme by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. In this interview with Blessing Osemobor, Fadare shares insights about mobile journalism, the impact, prospects and challenges. What is mobile journalism? Mobile
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