Training

News

‘Our experience, what we learnt at Future News Summit’

Abdulrasheed, Hammad, a participant in the Future News Worldwide conference reports on the outcome and impact of the training on young journalists worldwide. Participants in the recent Future News Worldwide conference for young journalists globally organised by the British Council have shared lessons and skills they learned during the three-day training and networking programme. The […]

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Media Opportunity Watch: Tuesday July 19 – 21, 2022

Media Programmes for the week: Programmes and activities scheduled for the week are conferences, training, Applications and the deadline for submission from 19th – 21st July 2022 compiled by Blessing Osemobor   Tuesday, July 19, 2022 WEBINAR Are you a journalist reporting on violence against children? With @WHO, we created a media guide on the

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MEDIA OPPORTUNITY WATCH: Sunday July 10 – 17, 2022

Media Programmes and activities scheduled for the week are conferences, training, applications and deadline for submission compiled by Blessing Osomobor Sunday, July 10, 2022 The Guild of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria (GPBN), invites you to a public lecture for professional new media practitioners (bloggers, online journalists etc). Theme: A veritable tool for mass conscientization in

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Lessons from Female Reporters Leadership Programme

The  Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme has taught me one big lesson, ‘’you can do so much with very little’’, writes Osaruonamen Ibizugbe, Project Officer, Media in Gender at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development.   Before now, I never believed I had any trait of leadership in

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Campus

Nigeria, Ghana campus journalists trained on Solutions Journalism

Blessing Udeobasi writes on the training organised for campus journalists as part of the 2022 LEDE Fellowship by 1-79 Media Consults. One of Nigeria’s leading media training hubs, I-79 Media Consults, has trained about 30 campus journalists from West Africa on the concept of solutions journalism. The training organised as part of the 2022 LEDE

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How AFYMP is empowering young journalists

With the support of a fully-funded training, African Foundation for Young Media Professionals is empowering early-career media enthusiasts to be better practitioners, writes Tijani Abdulkabeer   The African Foundation for Young Media Professionals (AFYMP) whose mission is to propagate media capacity development is providing young media and communications professionals with the skills and resources they

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Pulitzer: How journalists can be voice of the people

For many journalists, the name Pulitzer is synonymous with excellent journalism practice based on the most prestigious global journalism award, Pulitzer prizes which include photography, literature, history, poetry, music, and drama. Pulitzer who also founded the Columbia School of Journalism which opened in 1912 was however the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the

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