Lekan Otufodunrin, journalist and media career development specialist in Nigeria writes on a favourite hashtag that inspires him every Sundays and on other days #ThinkBigSundayWithMarsha I can’t remember how I stumbled on the hashtag. It must have been on one of those Sundays when I was going through my Twitter feeds in search of any tweet […]
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My heavy heartfelt condolence to the family of Mallam Ismailia Isa Funtua, an elder statesman, Publisher Defunct Democrat Newspapers, Former President Newspapers ProprietorsAssociation Of Nigeria, NPAN, business mogul and Chairman Governing Council of The Nigerian Institute Of Journalism, NIJ., who died on Monday from cardiac arrest, according to reports. His is a great loss to
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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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Worried by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the media industry, Media Rights Agenda and BONews Service recently held a Twitter Chat with the theme: Ensuring the Survival of Media in the Face of a Global Pandemic – The Role of Governments. Panellists during the chat included Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher of Premium Times, Toun
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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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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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Lekan Otufodunrin, media career development specialist writes on the need for editors to be emotionally intelligent in running their newsrooms. A reporter once arrived late to the newsroom and when the editor demanded an explanation, he said his mother was sick and he had to see her before coming to work. The editor, trying hard
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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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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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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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