Media Programmes and activities scheduled to hold this week include international conferences, deadlines, call for entries among others between Monday, October 5- Saturday, October 10, 2020). The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details: Monday, October 5, 2020 Deadline for JSK Data Reporting Grants Deadline of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at […]
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Lekan Otufodunrin, Journalist and Media Career Development specialist writes on the price he paid for being a ‘gentleman editor’ at The Punch, The Nation. Although she is not a journalist, she has worked long enough in the company to know how tough editors are usually. From being an admin officer and later the admin manager,
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Media Programmes and activities scheduled to hold this week include international conferences, deadlines, book release among others between Monday, September 28-Saturday, October 3, 2020). The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details: MONDAY, September 28, 2020 #WorldNewsDay World Editors Forum will hold a virtual event to celebrate WorldNewsDay, today. Journalists will show
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Freelance journalist and editor, Kehinde Ogunyale @Prof_KennyJames participated in recent online training on Water resources by @SurgeXMedia @SurgeAfricaOrg He shares highlights of the insightful session. SurgeXMedia is an initiative of @SurgeAfricaOrg that bridges the gap between community impact and climate news to amplify the widespread of climate data in Africa. The session was
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Damilare Famuyiwa, Content expert last Saturday held a media training on Thriving as a journalist in the world of new media. The former reporter with The Nation, Thenet.ng, Nairametrics, Pulse Nigeria and Max Mag shares the major highlights of his presentation during the training held on WhatsApp. We started the training by explaining
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In a Tweet thread, Gilbert Alasa based on insights from Future Tense- Travails of NEXT and Nigerian Journalism in the Digital Age outlines reasons for the failure of the audacious defunct newspaper NEXT by Pulitzer-winning writer Dele Olojede and what present media organisations must do to avoid making similar mistakes. #Thread + In 2009, Pulitzer-winning writer
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Excerpts from Banner Headlines by Stafford Somerfield, former reporter, editor and director of News of the World published in 1979. After Riddell’s death, Emsley Carr succeeded him as Chairman of the News of the World, buying Riddell’s shares for a million, raising the money in the City. He was already Editor and, if you judge
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Journalist and Media Career Development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin writes on how to re-purpose social media posts for book publication. When Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of YES INTERNATIONAL Magazine, Azuh Arinze wrote a Facebook post on how he met and fell in love with his wife, Edith, to mark their 14th marriage anniversary, it was just as he puts one of those
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Media Programmes scheduled to hold this week include training, call for entries among others between Monday, September 14-Saturday, September 19, 2020). The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details: Monday, September 14, 2020 Africa’s first independent fact-checking website invite for a special project manager closes today. Qualified applicant will be responsible
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Lekan Otufodunrin writes on the opportunity for women journalists to get funds for story and project ideas citing The Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists by the International Women Media Foundation (IWMF). To survive as a journalist in the present disrupted media landscape requires more than being able to write or produce a programme.
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