Book: Preparing for a Glorious Media Career
E-copy edition of Preparing for a Glorious Media Career: Handbook for Mass Communication Students. Read from here
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Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism calls for application in investigative journalism
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
Editors reporters admire
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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Are you editing your life and your media career ?
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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Sceptical or cynical journalist?
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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Journalism or your life, family?
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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Marquez: Journalist, Literature Nobel Laureate
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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Journalism without bothers
In this article, I run the risk of indulging in self-praise. I plead in advance that it is deliberate for a good purpose. My approach to writing on media career development issues is to cite personal examples of what I have been privileged to experience and what has worked for me. I usually want to
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Before you quit journalism
One of the most profound comments I have heard about the importance of thejournalism profession is one by Tetee Karnel, a Liberian female journalist. She spoke at a conference organized by The Media Project in Ghana for journalists from West Africa on the theme: “Journalism, Ethics and Religion” in 2011. “Journalism is not just a
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Stop wishing, have a clear media career vision.
At a recent communication conference, I listened for the first time, to Jimi Tewe, CEO of Inspiro Consulting and was intrigued by some thoughts he shared on career advancement. I later bought four CDs of his past conferences which I have listened to thrice and have been meditating on some of the very inspiring
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