Are women journalists marginalised? This was the topic of discussion at a round-table discussion organised by Journalism Clinic, a media training organisation in Lagos. Lande ABUDU reports on the outcome of the programme. “Gentlemen of the press” was the title of a Broadway play in 1928. The following year, it was adapted into an all-talking […]
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Wakili Digital Media, a media consultancy is recruiting the following staff for an FM Station in Abuja, Nigeria. Head of News Qualification Minimum of Bachelors degree/ HND in Mass Communication/related fields. A PG qualification in communication will be an advantage. Skills • Must be able to provide leadership and guidance in a radio newsroom. •
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Nigerian journalists have a chance to participate in Africa’s first data-driven investigative journalism initiative with $500,000 in grants and technical support for reportage that changes lives. The new impactAFRICA initiative which was launched last week will seek to support pioneering data journalism that tackles development issues, such as public healthcare, in six initial African countries:
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Looking to expand your journalism toolkit, take on a new beat or receive recognition for your work? Check out these promising courses, fellowships and competitions with deadlines in February. Each is open to journalists worldwide. Click here to read more
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Deputy Political Editor of Thisday newspaper, Prince Ademola Adeyemo is dead. Adeyemo, 56, reportedly suddenly slumped and died on Sunday evening at his Ibadan home. A 1986 Mass Communication graduate of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Adeyemo who also holds a masters degree in Industrial Psychology from University of Ibadan was former Oyo and Osun States correspondent
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Vice President of the Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria (PRCAN) writes on the courtesy visit of the association to Presidential spokesmen, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu. Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria (PRCAN) sent a three-member delegation to pay a courtesy visit to the spokesmen of President Muhammdu Buhari. The delegation was led
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Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in this piece, pays tribute to his sister, Professor Foluke Ogunleye who recently died in a motor accident while on a visit to the country from Botswana where she is on sabbatical. It’s a day in British tradition dedicated to opening boxes of gifts received at
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Deputy Head of Presentation, African Independent Television, Lara Owoeye Wise has been appointed Special Assistant, Media to the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Yusuf Suleiman Lasun. News of her recent appointment was contained in a congratulatory Facebook post by a colleague and blogger, Precious Eze. ” Congratulations ma’am and like I told you that midnight,
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Deputy Head of Presentation, African Independent Television, Lara Owoeye Wise has been appointed Special Assistant, Media to the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Yusuf Suleiman Lasun. News of her recent appointment was contained in a congratulatory Facebook post by a colleague and blogger, Precious Eze. ” Congratulations ma’am and like I told you that midnight,
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Editor of The Guardian Newspaper, Martins Oloja has been redeployed by the management of the company. Oloja was reportedly redeployed last week to the editorial board of the newspaper. A former Deputy Editor of the newspaper, Jewell Dafinone has been named Acting Editor of the daily. It is not yet clear why Oloja, former Abuja
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