The Media Mentors Journalism Center (MMJC) has commenced the 2021/2022 Media Mentoring programme. The programme which will run for eight months is the first by the Centre focused only on mentoring campus journalists and young journalists in Nigeria. Media Mentors Journalism Center is an arm of the Media Mentors Leadership Academy (MMLA), a national focused […]
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The Solutions Journalism Network’s Africa Initiative advocates teaches, and supports evidence-based reporting of African solutions, on African soil. It works with newsroom editors, reporters, freelancers, and creatives across the continent to produce quality solutions journalism in place of the dominant, problem-focused narratives that do not reflect Africa’s reality. Where in Africa are responses to social
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The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) has called for applications for its Natural Resources, Extractives, and Climate Change Program (NAREP). According to the post announcing the call applicants must be: ✓ A Corp Member or a recent graduate. ✓ Interested in and passionate about climate change and the environment. The applicant must have
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Canon pros agree that it’s important to charter your own course in sports photography – whether that’s in your training or finding your own niche With the Summer of sports underway, Canon (www.Canon-CNA.com) Ambassadors Molly Darlington, Eddie Keogh (https://bit.ly/2VUhCEz) Martin Bissig (https://bit.ly/3yFgRgG) and Richard Walch (https://bit.ly/3yLCxaW) offer advice for aspiring, young sports photographers. Use youth and inexperience to your advantage As a
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Campus journalists are participating in the first phase of the National Union of Campus Journalists’ (NUCJ) training on media law and human rights in Nigeria. “The Role of Campus Journalists in Safeguarding Media Law and Human Rights in Nigeria” is the theme of the first segment of the program, which will last two days, July
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The 4th edition of the Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP), organized by the Wole Soyinka Centre For Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) in Lagos on Monday with calls for more women in the leadership of media organisations in the country. Twenty-one female journalists from broadcast, print and digital media organizations are participating in the programme aimed at
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President of Union of Campus Journalists, the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-Hafeez reports on insights from a freelance Journalism Workshop organized by award-winning journalist and storyteller, Ope Adetayo. I was extremely glad when I received the news of my selection for the Ope Adetayo Journalism workshop held at the University of Ilorin campus
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Cameroonian award-winning journalist and gender advocate, Commy Mussa and Veteran journalist and human rights activist have offered tips and suggestions on how to ethically report about minors and appropriately report court proceedings. Mussa: Don’t endanger, stigmatize children In Cameroon bloggers, NGOs, journalists do an amazing job at drawing our attention to issues that need our
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Sixty journalists in Kenya have been trained on gender-sensitive COVID-19 reporting by the Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK). Marceline Nyambala, the association’s executive director said the two-day training was part of its sensitisation programmes that seek to promote balanced reporting in the Kenyan media space. “There’s is an imbalance in gender reporting, and
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What kind of hands-on training and tutelage can editors give their reporters on the job? Below is an excellent example contained in a letter pioneer Assistant Editor, later Editor and Editor-In-Chief, of The Guardian, Femi Kusa wrote to Collins Obibi, then a reporter on August 7, 1991. The letter contained in the book The Making
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