Student journalists have been urged to read books about the country and travel widely to be better equipped to understand her complex diversity that often poses a challenge to some journalists. Editor of The Guardian, Mr. Martins Oloja, offered the advice at the Professional Forum of Students of Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Ogba, Lagos, […]
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By Godwin Simon. Davebrook Digital PR Services has unveiled Nigeria’s first online newsroom services, Davebrook PR- a digital platform designed to connect businesses in Nigeria with national and global publicity opportunity. According to the information made available on its official website, the organisation is committed to linking businesses in Nigeria to global professionals through online
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GOOGLE Nigeria has over the weekend encouraged the media experts in the country on the use of modern data tools for effective reportage, especially of the forthcoming February general elections in the country. Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Anglophone, West Africa, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, made the appeal at the Google Data Tools for Elections
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E-copy edition of Preparing for a Glorious Media Career: Handbook for Mass Communication Students. Read from here
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As part of her effort to reward excellence and creativity in journalism, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has called for application into the ninth edition of the award. In a statement that was signed by the Coordinator of Centre, Motunrayo Alaka has it that the award is opened for submission on Saturday
He was Deputy Editor of The Punch Newspapers when he interviewed me for employment as a reporter in 1987. Mr Ademola Osinubi was to later become the Editor, General Manager and Managing Director of the paper where I worked till 1999 when I resigned. I still recall how he ‘cajoled’ me to accept to be
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From Wednesday, August 27 to Sunday, August 31, 2014, members of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) will gather in Katsina, for this year’s Nigerian Editors’ Conference (ANEC). This week’s editions of the MCD Diary will be devoted to writing about issues relating to what editors do and how they can improve on their job.
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One of the attributes required to be a good journalist is to be a sceptic. Who else but a journalist requires evidence for claims as sceptics do? In the course of our work, we regularly find claims which we have to verify to properly inform and educate our audience. A sceptical mind that is based
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Not many professions compare with journalism in terms of being intensive and requiring so much time to the detriment of other important aspects of one’s life. Meeting deadlines, not missing stories, generating story ideas, editing copies, getting exclusives and many other tasks require so much time that you are constantly thinking about work, on and
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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka once told the story of how he was not employed at the defunct Daily Times Newspaper as a reporter for writing a short story instead of a news story during an employment test. He ended the story of the career path he opted for with the statement, “thank God
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