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‘Our learning and not ‘errand’ boys internship experience’

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Adeyemi Temitayo kehinde and Bankole-Bawa Ademola, both Mass Communication Students from Ajayi Crowther University last week completed their internship with Media Career Development Network. They wrote about what they learnt and their experience below.   Adeyemi The Executive Director of Media Career Development Network (MCDN) Mr. Lekan Otufodunrin made me understand the basics of writing with […]

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Winners emerge in 2019 PwC Media Excellence Award

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Winners have emerged in the 2019 PwC Media Excellence Awards to celebrate and reward excellence in Business Reporting in Nigeria. The winners of the various categories announced at the award ceremony in Lagos on Friday night  are : Bayo Akinloye formerly of THISDAY:  SMEs Reporting Still load: How slow Internet speed under-develops Nigeria’s economy, stifles

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journalism

How to benefit from MacArthur’s $6.3m journalism grant

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How can journalists and other media professionals in Nigeria benefit from the $6.3 journalism and media grant to nine media organisations and institution to advance anti-corruption efforts announced by The MacArthur Foundation on Wednesday? Instead of ignoring or just reading the story, below are a few things journalists can do to enhance their careers through

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Nine Nigerian organisations get $6.3m journalism, media grants

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Nine media organisations and institution in Nigeria have been granted more than $6.3 journalism and media funding to advance anti-corruption efforts in the country by the MacArthur Foundation. The grantees include Bayero University, Kano, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting, Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation, Daily Trust Foundation and International Centre for Investigative Reporting. Others are

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‘Don’t believe the hype that journalists are supposed to be poor’

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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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Buhari warns on hate speech, social media publications

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President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that firm and decisive action against any action that infringes on the rights of other citizens or threatens to undermine our National Security, Oyinlola Awonuga reports. Buhari who gave the warning in his Independence Day broadcast on Tuesday said the federal government is increasingly focusing on cyber-crimes and abuse of

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