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OLATUNJI DARE @ 80: Accolades for an enigmatic journalism scholar-mentor

Abdulwarees Solanke, Deputy Director/Head, Strategic Planning & Corporate Development Department Voice of Nigeria pays tribute to renowned journalism scholar and writer, Professor Olatunji Dare who clocked 80 on July 17,2024 My senior in the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, UNILAG, in the mid-1980s, Lekan Otufodurin a few days ago dropped a nine-paragraph […]

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Quick Gen AI prompting lesson for journalists

Media and Children’s rights, welfare

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On July 3, 2024, UNICEF, Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) and the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) met with some editors in Lagos in continuation of the partnership to protect children’s rights and welfare with the discussion focused on polio and malnutrition in Nigeria. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) earlier signed on April 19 by

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EDITORIAL: Health and Wellness of Journalists

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Considering the intense nature of journalism work that sometimes requires working round the clock, journalists should be very conscious of their well-being and health. Media work stresses that journalists should know enough of the various health risks they are susceptible to and promptly take necessary precautions or treatment. This is however not the case with

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Enhancing Journalism Excellence: Review of 2023 Nigeria Media Capacity Development Report

Online: Indiscriminate copying and pasting

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On Sunday, June 23, the Publisher of Church Times Nigeria, Gbenga Osinaike called out a national Newspaper and other unnamed Online platforms over the republishing of his exclusive content without crediting him. According to Osinaike, he wrote an exclusive story with the title “Adeboye: I will no longer take attack on me lightly” published on

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Between NIPR and NUJ

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Congratulations to all our colleagues and other journalists I have seen online celebrating their induction as members of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) Becoming a certified member of NIPR is a good way of having additional career opportunities along with being an experienced journalist. Even without being a member of NIPR, many journalists

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Fatal Errors in communication and tragic consequences on relationships

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Communication is the lubricant that oils the wheel of relationship. If we allow this oil to dry up, we get the wheel locked. If we this oil becomes sludge, the wheel grinds to a halt. Granted that as human beings, fallibility is our common trait because to Allah, God almighty alone can we ascribe perfection

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Over-reliance on use of AI for editorial reports

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While assessing essays submitted for the recent 2nd Aisha Wakaso Award for Young Female Journalists in Niger State, six of the twelve entries were disqualified because they were found to be 100 percent written with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The initiator of the award, Wakaso who is the Special Adviser, Print Media to the state governor

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