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UNIPORT 2016: Call for papers

The African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) in conjunction with the Department Of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Port Harcourt, has announced its Call for Papers for the 18th National Conference/AGM tagged UNIPORT 2016.    The theme for this year conference is “Communication and Economic Development” while the sub-themes are as follow:    1.  Media For […]

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Open Invitation: Election Reporting Workshop

Reporters, editors, producers, bloggers and anyone reporting or writing about elections in their country are invited to participate in an online workshop organised by the African Regional Hub of the United States Department of States. The English workshop of the workshop will hold on Tuesday, February 16 from 13:30- 15:00 GMT. Judy Yablonky, Media Consultant

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Entries invited for reinsurance journalism awards

Journalists from across Africa have until the 29th February 2016 to submit their entries for the inaugural pan-African reinsurance Journalism Awards. Dr Femi Oyetunji, Group MD/CEO of Continental Reinsurance said: “The insurance and reinsurance sector has a valuable role to play in Africa’s economic growth and development and we want to recognise the respected contribution of the media to the sector’s growth.” Continental Reinsurance Plc launched

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Mass Comm students who don’t read newspapers

Lekan Otufodunrin writes on his experience with Mass Communication students who don’t know enough of the profession. I meet them regularly. They come looking for internship opportunities while in school or jobs when they graduate. “Do you read newspapers?” I usually ask whenever I decide to drill them. Their responses usually betrayed most of them

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$.5m grants, technical support for journalists

Nigerian journalists have a chance to participate in Africa’s first data-driven investigative journalism initiative with $500,000 in grants and technical support for reportage that changes lives. The new impactAFRICA initiative which was launched last week will seek to support pioneering data journalism that tackles development issues, such as public healthcare, in six initial African countries:

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