The African Courier, a news platform for the African community in Germany, has relaunched its print edition after four years of being off the newsstand. The magazine launched in 1998 as a bimonthly went fully digital in 2017 and discontinued the print edition to fully focus on the development of its online platform to […]
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Dayo Emmanuel writes on discussions on media practice in the country at the launch of Nigeria Media Capacity Development Report 2020 Based on the content of the Nigeria Media Capacity Development Report 2020 by Media Career Development Network (MCDN) launched on February 5 Nigerian journalists cannot claim not to have various training opportunities and programmes
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The former Manager, Editorial Training and Language Control of The Punch Newspaper, Mr Seth Akintoye who retired from the company in June last year, left earlier than he wanted to. In his memoir titled Twist and Turns of Life: My birth, Career and Faith published in January, this year, Akintoye explained that his decision to
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The number of practising journalists and media professionals with doctorate degrees in Media and Communication is increasing with the recent award of PhD by the School of Media and Communication at Pan-Atlantic University (PAU) and thesis defence at the School of Communication, Lagos State University, (LASU). Among those who graduated at the 17th convocation ceremony
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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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