Fatemah Farag, Founder and Director of Welad ElBalad Media, Egypt underlines the vital role local journalism plays in empowering communities and sustaining democracy – and emphasises how they continue to provide critical, reliable information despite multiple, increasing challenges. Deep in the south of Egypt a young woman once told me “Being a journalist at a local […]
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Journalism entails many things and is generally recognised as vital worldwide. It has become a tool to evaluate freedom and democracy in social institutions. Journalism also covers information dissemination, vigilance, and criticism and creates a forum for public debate on controversial national issues. Journalism is decoding significant information about society – news about the many
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Historically, in Nigeria, media and public literacy are a union that can’t be divorced. For decades now, right from the pre-independence and early independence era and even during the regional government time, public broadcasting media have mostly been used for education and literacy skills dissemination aside from news and information sharing. A lot of learning
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Of all forms of communication, the spoken word has an unusual power that is both constructive and destructive. It is the most pervading method of communication, which other forms only complement. With the spoken word, you can easily gauge mood, strength and character. The advent of radio has taken the power of the spoken word
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As part of the repositioning and revitalisation of university education in Nigeria, five years ago, the National Universities Commission (NUC), had announced the unbundling of Mass Communication as a degree programme into several separate degree programmes, thereby, making it a full Faculty. According to the then Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar
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Our intern from the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos reviews We Are Priceless, a novel on human trafficking by Juliana Francis, investigative reporter, mentor, trainer and gender advocate. Human life is supposed to be priceless because children are a precious gift from God. Unfortunately, those who engage in human trafficking don’t think so.
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Our intern from the Department of Mass Communication, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Olamide Ayoade reviews “The Journalist You Ought To Be” by media career development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin. If you want a book that offers a thorough exploration of media career development, blending practical advice with inspirational guidance, “The Journalist You Ought To Be” by
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Heritage Kehinde of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos (UNILAG), writes about her first week of internship experience at Media Career Development Network. For a long time now, I have anticipated my internship experience so much because it would be my first work experience as a student. I was looking forward to it
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Today, the largest proportion of consumers of media content falls in the youth category, requiring that media content producers must always factor the needs of the youth in their processes and schedules if they must be relevant, competitive and impactful on this critical segment of the population and gain from their potentials and strength to
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In this review of the reporting of the #EndBadGovernance protests, Dr Tunde Akanni, Media and Conflict expert who is an associate professor at the Lagos State University writes that content creation is the worst form of mimicry for genuine journalism practice. Expectedly, this season of uncertainty unleashed on the nation by #EndBadGovernance campaigners is
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