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5 Important Digital Safety and Security Tips for Journalists

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Journalism practice and processes has evolved to become mostly digital activities, most journalists’ workflow— information gathering, processing and dissemination— begins and end on digital platforms using a smartphone computer and/or other digital gadgets. This reality has helped journalists reduce physical safety and security concerns. However, the digital space is not devoid of its threats and […]

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Male allies supporting women in Journalism

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Presentation by Executive Director, Media Career Development Network, Lekan Otufodunrin on Male allies supporting women in journalism at Gender Consonance and Female Media Leadership training by Broadcast journalist at Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Nkechi Macaulay. The training was supported by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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Enhancing Journalism Excellence: Review of 2023 Nigeria Media Capacity Development Report

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The 2023 Nigeria Media Capacity Development Report, published by the Media Career Development Network is out. This report, according to the Executive Director of the MDCN, Lekan Otufodunrin, is created to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of media training in Nigeria. However, the 2023 report, the 4th edition, captured more as it

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Journalists who have moved on to Law, Banking, Academic, Technology and more

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What are the options open to journalists when their active newsroom days are over? There are various options based on what many journalists have moved on to doing after exiting from practicing journalism intentionally or due to various circumstances. The present varied non-journalism work of some former staff of The Punch Newspapers who shared stories

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ABC of public speaking and presentation

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“Command your stage” is a 272-page introspection, interrogation and examination of the art and science of public speaking and contextual presentation written by our dear author, broadcaster and speech presentation expert Mrs. Bimbo Oloyede. The book is packaged and delivered in twelve chapters of precise, descriptive, unambiguous free-flowing prose laced with intellectual sagacity and journalistic expertise so

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Besides generating images and text, what AI tools can help small newsrooms with.

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The most popular use of AI tools in content creation is text and image generation but this is not the only thing it can be used for. This is probably why many journalists are still apprehensive of its use.  There are other functions that AI tools can offer journalists and especially newsrooms with a small

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Media Career Q&A: Difference between Journalism and Content Creation?

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A caller recently asked me what’s the difference between Journalism and Content Creation. The answer is in a recent lecture I delivered on bridging the gap between journalism and content creation. Below is an excerpt from the lecture and some additional thoughts. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, journalism is “… the collection, preparation, and distribution

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