Tributes have begun pouring in for legendary CNN interviewer Larry King who passed away on Saturday at 87. Ora Media revealed in a social media post that King died in Cedars Sinai hospital, in Los Angeles, where he had been hospitalised. King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and […]
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A new executive has been elected for the National Union of Campus Journalists, Nigeria, (NUCJ) with Samuel Ajala, of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti elected as the President. Ajala who was Public Relations Officer in the outgoing executive scored 88 votes to defeat his opponent, Abdulbasit Abdulazeez who had five votes. Others elected in the
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has invited story pitches from Nigerian journalists from all genres of the media with interest in investigating the intersection between COVID-19, access to information and misinformation, to submit story pitches for consideration. Deadline for submission of pitches is Saturday, 30 January 2021 | 11:59 pm (WAT). The
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Monday launched a project to combat impunity for attacks against journalists. Announcing the take-off of the project, Ms Chioma Nwaodike, Head of MRA’s Legal Department warned that those who unjustifiably threaten or undermine the safety or security, freedom and wellbeing of media professionals in Nigeria should expect to be met
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The management of three online media organisations, Premium Times, TheCable and Dateline Nigeria have announced new appointments and promotion of their staff. Kola Olapoju will take over from Taiwo George as editor of TheCable from February 1. George has resigned his appointment for a yet to be disclosed new appointment in another media organisation. Two
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Nigerian science writer, Abdullahi Tsanni has been named along with three others for the four early-career science journalism fellowship by The Open Notebook, (TON). The other fellows are Pedro Márquez-Zacarías, a PhD candidate in quantitative biosciences at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, María Paula Rubiano A., Colombian freelance science journalist and Carolyn Wilke, Chicago-based freelance journalist.
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Journalists from across Africa have won various categories of the Labour Migration Reporting Awards. The awards were hosted by African Women in Media (AWiM), in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), International Labour Organization (ILO) and International Organization for Migration (IOM), under the Joint Labour Migration Programme (JLMP). The winners and their categories are:
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Winners have emerged for the 2020 Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA) at the ceremony held on Friday night in Lagos. With 895 entries assessed, The Nation with a total of 14 awards had 38 nominations in various categories. New Telegraph, 22 nominations, The Guardian had 17, PUNCH 14, Vanguard eight and The Sun two nominations. The Guardian Newspapers won five of the
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Two hundred and seventy-four journalists were jailed in relation to their work globally this year according to the annual global survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The record number of affected journalists’ exceeding 272 in 2016 as at December 1 followed arrests of many covering COVID-19 or political `instability by authoritarian nations. “ Amid
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A call has been made for a review of existing regulatory provisions to make a commitment to the welfare of journalists by employers enforceable. The call was made in a communique issued at the end of a stakeholders forum on Journalists safety and press freedom limitations in Nigeria organized by the International Press Centre. Participants
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