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Tweets for thought from African Investigative Journalism Conference

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Speakers and participants at the just concluded African Investigative journalism conference in Johannesburg offered their thoughts on various issues concerning the practice of the profession. Some of the perspectives shared are as followed @AIJC_Conference As journalists, we need to rethink our paradigms of work. How relevant is the story we tell to our society? Is […]

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Global/Nigeria: State of Technology in newsrooms

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Lekan Otufodunrin reviews the 2019 survey of the State of Technology in Global newsrooms against the situation in newsrooms in Nigeria.  The International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) last week released its 2019 survey of the State of Technology in Global Newsrooms. The report should be of interest to journalists and media organisations worldwide as it

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Presidential wedding hoax: Danger of social media

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Tayo Ogunbiyi writes of the alleged presidential wedding that didn’t happen.  It is no longer news that the much-hyped social media-induced ‘wedding of the year’ between President Muhammadu Buhari and Hajia Sadia Umar Farouq, the current Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management is nothing but a hoax. Recall that social media promoters of the

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‘Don’t believe the hype that journalists are supposed to be poor’

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By Lekan Otufodunrin Journalism teachers should stop telling their students that studying Mass Communication is equal to signing a pact with poverty. I just read My Dossier: A celebration of 20 years in Christian Journalism by Wole Olarinde, publisher of Christian Benefit Magazine in which he recalled what one of his lecturer at The Polytechnic,

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