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Google $5,000 grant: Why some got, others didn’t and how to get grants

Media Career Development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin reviews the recent award of relief funds for media organisations by Google and explains the selection process and other ways of getting support. If your media organization applied for the Google $5,000 Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for news organisations to support them to increase their capacity to cover the […]

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Employment: Why your social media pages, writings matter

Lekan Otufodunrin, journalist and media career development specialist writes on the importance of professional online engagements for media job seekers.   I recently reposted an old, but still timely content on www.mediacareerng.org website titled 7 Professional ways to get your dream job.  The article reiterated why Social media is supposed to be more for professional engagement than

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Media, panacea for sustainable business development in Africa

Presentation by Lekan Otufodunrin at the Africa Students Entrepreneurs Summit organized by RoundNews on the contribution of the media to sustainable business development in Africa. June 29, 2020 Greetings to all participants in this programme. I want to thank the organisers, Round News for the invitation to speak at this African Students Entrepreneurs Summit initiative. I’m

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Benchmarking state of Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa print media

Presentation by Lekan Otufodunrin, Executive Director, Media Career Development Network (MCDN) at the MEDIAGIG2020 organised by The Co-builders and MCDN on July 1, 2020   Last Friday, I joined a zoom meeting of my Class 1 Alumni classmates of the ALI Media Blomberg fellowship of 2015 with participants made up of top media managers from Nigeria,

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Media: Our survival battle against COVID-19’s storm

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists worldwide have been among frontline workers contributing to stemming the spread of the virus through reporting on various print, broadcasting and online platforms. In Africa, with over 250,000 cases, 6000 plus deaths and over 100,000 recoveries in 57 countries, journalists, despite various limitations have risen up to

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COVID-19: Work and ensure you are alive, NUJ Chair advises journalists

Live Video by Chairman of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Emmanuel Ogbeche Good evening colleagues, this is the Chairman of Council, Emmanuel Ogbeche. I have been compelled to make this live video today because it has become apparent that journalists, our colleagues, are coming down with COVID-19 in

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COVID-19 and increased use for communication technology

Chidi Matthew Nwachukwu writes on the improved use of communication tools due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.    The Covid-19 pandemic has unarguably proved to be a global catastrophe of unprecedented severity. Although there had been lots of fears, anxieties and entropy woven with the pandemic, the other side of the pandemic story is certainly

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