Tunde Abatan, Publisher/Editor, New Dawn, Newdawnngr.com shares his online publishing experience in this interview. What is working for you and what is not? It has been a worthwhile experience running an online publication with its challenges. I have been used to regular newspaper terrain for almost three decades. Contrary to what many believe, running an […]
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Sakibu Olokojobi, Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief FrontPage (frontpageng.com) highlights what is needed to succeed as an online publisher and other issues aspiring publishers should note. What is working for you and what is not? So many things, to the glory of God, I would say are working for me. Publishing an online newspaper is not a
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Freelance Investigative and Development Journalist, Kelechukwu Iruoma has won many awards, grants and fellowships for his reports on many local and international platforms. In this online interview with Lekan Otufodunrin, he offers deep insights on his winning streak and what other interested journalists can do to maximise various opportunities. Congratulations on the Fellowship on
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Banjo Damilola is an award-winning Nigerian investigative journalist. She had worked with Sahara Reporters and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). A year ago, Banjo enrolled for a Masters Degree at the Columbia Journalism School, one of the oldest journalism schools in the world, located in New York, United States of America (USA). In this online
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Dr. Taye Obateru, Senior lecturer at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Jos is an experienced journalist, researcher, and teacher. For 27 years he was a correspondent of Vanguard Newspaper. In this interview with Lekan Otufodunrin, he speaks on media training, ethics of the profession, his newsroom to academics story, and other issues. Experienced
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Mr. Olisa Egbunike, a veteran Nigerian journalist was former Assistant-Editor-In-Chief of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and Editor of the Independent Newspaper. He was also Group General Manager of the Daily Times Nigeria. In this interview, he spoke on his journalism career, the media industry and offered advice for journalists and media owners. Excerpt below:
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Correspondent of Media Career, Raphael Adenaike recalls his last interview with Mohammed Fawehimi, lawyer and first son of the legal luminary Chief Gani Fawhinmi, who recently died in Lagos. “There is no country I haven’t been to for treatment – England, Germany, Israel, name it,” Mohammed Fawehinmi had told me off-the-record about his health condition.
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Social Activist, Esther Ijewere on Friday, July 9, had a tweet chat #GetTalkingWithEsther with Executive Director of Media Career Development Network, Lekan Otufodunrin on the theme Freedom of Speech and its impact on the media. The question and answer session is reproduced below People say freedom of speech is guaranteed but freedom after speech isn’t
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President of the National Union of Campus Journalists (NUCJ), Samuel Ajala, in this interview with Abdulrasheed Hammad, unveiled the agenda and programmes towards repositioning the union. The plans include a partnership with media organizations and professionals in the country and measures to enhance press freedom in Nigeria campuses. Your executive has been up and running with
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His journey to becoming the Editor-in-Chief of two top digital media platforms in the country is not typical. As he admitted, Bayo Olupohunda, Editor-in-Chief of Opera News has been a bit of an outsider having not really taken up a full-time job while writing in the traditional media space. From The Guardian to the defunct
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