Books on various media organisations and issues
*Available for reading and lending
UNEVEN STEPS:
The story of the Nigerian Guild of Editors by Lanre Idowu ( 2019)
The book discusses the role, achievements and failings of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in the quest for press freedom, professional respect, press responsibility and accountability. It is as much examination of an institutional platform as it is an analysis of the role of individual players in nurturing or restricting the objectives of the Guild as a professional association.
THE MAKING OF THE NIGERIAN FLAGSHIP
A Story of The Guardian
By Aaron Ukodie and O’seun Ogunseitan (April 2021)
Two Nigerian journalists have chronicled the conception, planning, birth and nurturing in Lagos, of The Guardian newspaper, arguably Nigeria’s most intellectual and most internationally renowned newspaper in the last 40 years.
Aaron Ukodie and O’seun Ogunseitan took painstaking trouble, to backtrack a trail that has almost all been covered up by sand and mud over the last 30 years, as Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation continued to roll along in a yet to be clearly defined human development path.
THE LEAD STORY
A diary of an ICT reporter by Aaron Ukodie (2015)
The book is not about journalism in Nigeria. It, however, mirrors the practice of journalism at a defining moment of the evolution of the profession in Nigeria. The book looked at the practice of journalism from my experiences in the author’s six at The Guardian from June 1985 to February 1991, and 30 years of practice as a reporter and media entrepreneur in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry.