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Conference every student journalist should aspire to attend

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Daniel Whyte, one of the three Nigerians who participated in the recent Future News Worldwide annual conference shares his experience and lessons learnt.   The Future News Worldwide is an annual conference for passionate students or young journalists between the age of 18-25. The conference is organised by the British Council in partnership with some world-leading […]

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Data visualisation improves quality of stories

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  By Abdussalam Amoo Journalists have been urged to implement data visualisation to improve the quality of their stories. The facilitator of the monthly Hacks/Hackers Meetup for Journalists in Lagos, Mr John Eromosele gave the advice at the June meeting with the theme “Charting – Enrich your story”. Eromosele noted that telling a story using

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Media Advisory on Day against Drug abuse, illicit Trafficking

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  International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking   Background By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of

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Niger journalists trained on Fact-Checking

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A fact-checking training has been held for a group of journalists in Niger state by a Dubawa Fact-Checking Fellow, Justina Asishana. The two-day training focused on skills needed for fact-checking including the difference between fact-checking and news reporting, how to source for claims and what claims are fact-checkable. The participants also learnt about what claims

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Radio

Farm Radio International: Resources, training for journalists

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Farm Radio International focused on improving rural African communities offers resources and training for radio broadcasters.   What is Farm Radio International? Farm Radio International is a Canadian international non-governmental organization uniquely focused on improving rural African communities through the world’s most accessible communications tool: radio. We produce radio resources that support thousands of broadcasters

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JOURNALISM

BMIA expands financial journalism training to five countries

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The Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa (BMIA) on Thursday announced the expansion of its Financial Journalism Training (FJT) program to Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania. The training programme was earlier in the year launched in  Ghana and Zambia.  According to a statement, the programme will support the advancement of financial journalism and contribute to economic development on the continent.

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How to report business and human rights issues

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Alao Abiodun writes on the training for journalists on Business and Human Rights reporting  On Tuesday, 21 May, Global Rights Nigeria, a human rights organization working to build grassroots movements that promote and protect the rights of marginalized populations ended a two-day training workshop on “Media Training on Business and Human Rights Reporting in Nigeria”.

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Tweets from International Symposium on Online Journalism

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As part of our resolve to monitor journalism and media conferences worldwide, we followed presentations and discussions at the 20th International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, TX from Apr. 12-13, 2019. Find below some of the insightful tweets from the conference. Dear young journalist who wants to make up their job title: – Understand

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