A story by a former winner of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award has brought about a change in the law in Kenya. As a result of her report, All Kenyan schoolgirls are now to get free sanitary pads, the government has said. Four years ago, Judy Kosgei won the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist award for […]
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In February, as I started my 10-week, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Back in the Newsroom Fellowship, I looked forward to immersing myself in journalism and all aspects of what USA Today did. As a senior entering my last semester at Morgan State University, I was honored to be selected for what was essentially a
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Award-winning journalist, Seun Akioye recently resumed work as the Senior Media Officer of Abuja-based Centre for Communication Programs Nigeria (CCPN), which is focused on communication in social and behavioural change for development in Nigeria. In a chat with Kelechi Amakoh of www.mediacareerng.org ,the former Assistant Editor, Investigations of The Nation speaks on why he left the newspaper, his new
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International award-winning journalist and publisher of the defunct NEXT Newspaper, Dele Olojede in a recent Podcast interview titled A conversation with Dele Olojede with Feyi Fawehinmi spoke extensively on his failed attempt to publish a national newspaper in Nigeria. Seventy five quotes from the interview by our Seye Joseph, MCS Special Contributor are reproduced below.
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Kelechi Amakoh writes on the well-deserved appointment of Dr Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika as the first female Professor of Mass Communication in the University of Lagos. On Monday, June 5, an erudite scholar, Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika joined the league of professors at the University of Lagos as the university administration confirmed her as a Professor of Mass Communication.
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Kelechi Amakoh writes on the well-deserved appointment of Dr Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika as the first female Professor of Mass Communication in the University of Lagos. On Monday, June 5, an erudite scholar, Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika joined the league of professors at the University of Lagos as the university administration confirmed her as a Professor of Mass Communication.
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Lolade Adewuyi, formerly of TELL Magazine and Goal.com last Friday, June 23 bagged a Masters degree in Sports Administration from the Russian International Olympic University. In this online interview, Adewuyi speaks on his experience at the programme and what traditional journalists need to know and do to avoid becoming relic in the new media work
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Musa Saidykhan a respected Gambian journalist who was arbitrarily arrested and tortured by officers of the country’s National Intelligence Agency is currently living in exile in the United States of America. He currently writes for Kairo News and advocates for respect of human rights and freedom of expression in the Gambia. His story of unjust torture
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The immediate past editor of TheCable Online newspaper, Fisayo Soyombo has joined the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) as Editor. He announced his new job on his facebook wall on Monday, June 5. joining ICIR means its ‘payback time’; it is in fact a ‘homecoming’ for me. And although the move wasn’t all that straightforward
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By Kelechi Amakoh The State House Correspondent Of Channels Television, Chukwuma Onuekwusi is dead. The 55-year old journalist died in the early hours of Tuesday in an Abuja hospital after battling with an ailment for some weeks. He worked for Channels Television for 19 years. During this period, he covered several beats on Channels Television
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