Gabriel Ogunjobi, a participant at the Future News Worldwide 2019 conference in London shares his notes on various issues discussed on how to tell compelling stories to make the world a better place. The uniformed and glowing passion in the hearts of the young journalists across fifty-three countries at the Future News Worldwide (FNW) 2019 […]
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Daniel Whyte, one of the three Nigerians who participated in the recent Future News Worldwide annual conference shares his experience and lessons learnt. The Future News Worldwide is an annual conference for passionate students or young journalists between the age of 18-25. The conference is organised by the British Council in partnership with some world-leading
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Mr Kunle Ajibade, Executive Director of TheNEWS/P.M.NEWS, read this review at the public presentation of Lanre Arogundade’s Media and Election: Professional Responsibilities of Journalists on 16 July 2019 in Lagos. Exactly forty years ago last month, one of Nigeria’s best journalists and editors, the assassinated Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch, Dele Giwa, wrote a piece in
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Journalists have been urged to ensure that their reports are more data and evidence-based. The Editorial Chair of Nigeria Info, Rotimi Sankore made the call at the 11th Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series to mark the 85th birthday of Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. Sankore was one of the discussants at the Lecture organized by
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How long does the tenure of editors of The Punch Newspaper, Nigeria’s most widely read newspaper last? This question followed the forced resignation of the Daily editor of the paper, Martins Ayankola based on the management’s decision on an offensive cartoon illustrating a back-page column in the paper. The cartoon that illustrated a write-up titled
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Lekan Otufodunrin writes against excessive republishing of content of websites on social media and on other platforms without permission or payment. A well-intentioned republishing of a magazine content on Facebook got me thinking this morning on why it may be difficult for online publishers to earn returns on their investments. Many usually ask me why
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By Esther Olaifa A new book, Media and Elections: Professional Responsibilities of journalists by Director, International Press Centre (IPC), Lanre Arogundade will be launched in Lagos on Tuesday, July 16. The venue of the launching is Eko FM Multi-purpose Hall, Radio Lagos/ LTV premises, Agidingbi, Ikeja-Lagos, by 11am. ” The book is a collection of
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The media has been urged to effectively utilize the Corporate Governance Rating System (CGRS) in assessing the performance of companies listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) in the country. The call was made during the Governance, Leadership and Ethics conference organised by The Convention on Business Integrity Limited in Lagos last Friday. Company Secretary,
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By Abdussalam Amoo Journalists have been urged to implement data visualisation to improve the quality of their stories. The facilitator of the monthly Hacks/Hackers Meetup for Journalists in Lagos, Mr John Eromosele gave the advice at the June meeting with the theme “Charting – Enrich your story”. Eromosele noted that telling a story using
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International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Background By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of
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