By Tunde Abatan, Contributing Editor The Nigeria media has come a long way in the emergence of the country, its independence from colonial rule and under the military dictatorship. Yet, the decision to checkmate its activities through the obnoxious Hate Speech and Fake News bills now before the National Assembly has not discouraged agents of […]
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Text of a paper delivered by Mr Edward Dickson, Managing Director/Editor in Chief African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc, at the 15th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference held in Sokoto from November 27 to December 1, 2019 The new media is the translation of Marshall McLuhan’s prediction in his seminal 1964 book, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man,
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Paper by General Manager of Vanguard Newspaper, Gbenga Adefaye, titled FIGHTING OFF THE THROES OF DEATH… at the 15th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC) at The International Conference Centre Sokoto: November 27 – December 1, 2019 For this assignment of setting the tone for Sokoto ANEC 2019, let me begin with what should really be the endnote. It is a quote from
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Paper Presented Gbemiga Ogunleye, FNGE, Provost, Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos at The 15th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC) at The International Conference Centre Sokoto: November 27 – December 1, 2019 Let me begin by thanking the Planning Committee of ANEC 2019 for giving me the privilege of sharing my thoughts with my colleagues on
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In commemoration of the 2019 World Television Day marked on November 21, our reporter, Oyinlola Awonuga, sought the views of a cross-section of persons on their best television station and programme. From the responses, there are indications that many people no longer watch traditional television programmes as they used to do. Some prefer to watch
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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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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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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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Contributing Editor, Tunde Abatan, writes on the mixed fortunes of journalists who have served as media aides in government at federal and state levels and what those aspiring to take similar jobs should expect. If a former editor of a national newspaper who prefers not to be named is asked for advice by any senior
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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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