Sexual harassment in newsrooms was one of the major topics of discussion on the first day of the Africa Women in Media conference which began in Nairobi on Thursday. Various speakers and contributors shared their experiences and called for a break in the silence and stoppage of the act. Read below some of the tweets […]
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Abdulwarees Solanke, Assistant Director with Voice of Nigeria pays tribute to his mentors in journalism Joke Kujenya is a fantastic female journalist who has put more than three decades into the pen-pushing craft. She’s also gone round most of the big newspapers in the country, dead or surviving with many awards and laurels to her
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Mr Kunle Ajibade, Executive Director of TheNEWS/P.M.NEWS, read this review at the public presentation of Lanre Arogundade’s Media and Election: Professional Responsibilities of Journalists on 16 July 2019 in Lagos. Exactly forty years ago last month, one of Nigeria’s best journalists and editors, the assassinated Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch, Dele Giwa, wrote a piece in
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Wale Fatade in this piece wonders why journalists choose to see no evil and hear no evil whenever changes are effected in another media organisation. The sack of two editors of The Punch newspapers last week attracted barely a whimper in the media. Except for one or two online newspapers, no other medium thought
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Lekan Otufodunrin writes an open letter to two editors of The Punch Newspapers asked to resign their appointment, one over an offensive cartoon and the other for an unexplained reason. Dear Martins Ayankola and Olabisi Ope Deji-Folutile I write to congratulate you on your exit from The Punch after years of meritorious service. I am
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The 2019 edition of the world congress of the International Press Institute (IPI) #IPIWOCO has held in Geneva with the theme Building alliances for Independent media IPI annually holds a high-profile World Congress, gathering editors, media executives and leading journalists from globally-renowned media outlets. The congress was held in Abuja, Nigeria in 2018. In our
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The World News Media Congress ends on June 3, 2019 in Glasglow, Scotland. We bring you some of the key thoughts shared by some of the speakers at the event from the tweets on #WNMC19. +”The biggest existential challenge that we face as publishers is not the platforms, but getting stuck with a single
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Women In News (WIN) a WAN-IFRA’s media leadership programme, empowering media women throughout Africa, MENA and Southeast Asia held its summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday, June 1, 2019. The summit was held alongside the World News Media Congress holding from June-1-3. Below are some major tweets on the contributions of participants. Women journalists
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Lekan Otufodunrin writes on the professional role journalists appointed as media aides should be allowed to perform in government. With the inauguration of the President and governors across the country, some journalists will soon be named as Special Advisers, Special Assistants (Media and Publicity) and Chief Press Secretaries. The media aide job is usually among the
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Lekan Otufodunrin writes on how experienced journalists can maximise expertise by getting paid or acknowledged for what they know. As a media career development specialist, one thing I can plead guilty of is that I pay attention (maybe too much) to spotting opportunities I think journalists and other professionals should learn how to take advantage
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