TRi Facts, Africa Check’s training unit has invited mid-career journalists to apply for a two-day Election fact-checking and verifications training workshop in Nigeria. The training is aimed at having fact-checking champions to help build in-house fact-checking capacity within media organisations to improve the quality of election reporting and fostering a wider culture of fact-checking. Scheduled […]
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The website of the African Women in Media (AWiM) was has been launched. Founder of the group Dr Yemisi Akinbobola announced the launch on Monday, August 10, 2018 ” Over the last couple of months I have been working with my team @flakey_phil and Bamidele Ogunleye to bring you the @africanwomeninthemedia website. This is just the
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Online journalists and bloggers engaged interested in reporting governance and electoral issues ahead the 2019 elections have been invited by the International Press Centre (IPC) to apply to apply to attend a two-day workshop on conflict sensitive reporting. The workshop, supported by the EU under Component 4b: Support to the media of the EU Support
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The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, has welcomed the release of a reporter of Premium Times Samuel Ogundipe on bail on Friday but demanded that all charges against him be dropped. Ogundipe was arrested by police on August 14 after the his newspaper, the Premium Times,
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Staring from Saturday, August 18, training for 100 journalists to take a critical look at their content, impact on their audiences and communities and their future will commence in Lagos. Tagged #RethinkingContent – the training supported by Fidelity Bank PLC will have 25 selected journalists at the first training. Three other sessions will hold in
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A new news agency (www.AfricanDailyVoice.com/en) was on Monday launched by the African Daily Voice (ADV) Group. As a new entrant in the very competitive media market, ADV according to a statement plans to work with ten regional desks: Algiers (Algeria), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Douala (Cameroon), Kinshasa (DRC), Bangui (RCA), Johannesburg (South Africa), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia),
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The second Google for Nigeria event was held in Lagos on Thursday with the announcement of the launching of Google Station for Nigeria to make the internet more easily accessible for Nigerians. Google Station for Nigeria is a program to provide high quality, high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots in partnership with 21st Century, one of the largest
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The First Merck Health Media Training, organized by Merck Foundation (Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany has been held in Nairobi, Kenya, The training was attended by over 200 journalists representing multimedia, print and online media from 17 African countries. According to Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation and President of Merck
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The Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom has called on the Federal Government to order the immediate release of Mr Jones Abiri, publisher of the Weekly Source newspaper in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Abiri was arrested by agents of the Department of State Security (DSS) on July 21, 2016 and has been detained without charge since then.
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Top media holding company, Africa.com has completed its acquisition of iAfrica.com, South Africa’s oldest news portal from South African media giant, Primedia (Pty) Ltd and telecoms powerhouse, MTN (Pty) Ltd. The terms of the agreement according to a press statement by the African Media Agency were not disclosed. Founded in late 1990s, iAfrica is said
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