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COVID-19: Seven ways journalists should maintain mental, emotional wellbeing

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Chika Mefor-Nwachukwu of Leadership Newspapers writes on the online course she participated in with the support of the Media Career Development Network on why journalists should prioritize their mental health as they go about reporting the Covid-19 pandemic. Everybody needs this knowledge, but the journalists and other frontline workers (especially health workers) need it all […]

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‘How I Won My First International Media Fellowship’

UNLOCKED: Writings from COVID-19 lockdown (E-Book)

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UNLOCKED is a compilation of incisive writings of accomplished journalist and media career development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin during the five weeks lockdown of Lagos and other parts of Nigeria due to the coronavirus crisis. Divided into three sections: Motivation, Interviews, Opinion/Analysis, the purpose of this E-book is to showcase what he was able to achieve

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HBD BOB DEE: But you are not a journalist!

Adamawa correspondents’ scary, stigamatising COVID-19 experience

COVID-19: Salary payment, new measures in 24 media houses (UPDATED)

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Before the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, some media organisations have been defaulting in payment of salaries and allowances of their staff. The situation has however become complicated with virtually all the major media houses unable to meet their normal obligations. Some are still unable to pay, some paid a percentage of normal salaries and

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COVID-19: Lay off, salary slash, forced leave in PUNCH, Nigeria Info, TVC, others

‘How speech defect almost stopped my broadcast career’

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Abimbola Otusanya of FAAJI 106.5FM, Lagos recalls her ten-year broadcast journalism journey which almost did not start due to a speech defect she was said to have had. I became an undergraduate of the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, at the University of Ilorin by mistake. That was 1997, four whole years after secondary school;

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Flashback: Two students who dared to win award for working journalists

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In 2009, two students of the Lagos State Polytechnic on industrial attachment entered for the main category of the Young Journalist Award, not the one for students and they won. Below is the citation for Tosin Makinde and Nike Ashogbon (now Fagbemi ) joint winners of the Young Journalist of the Year Award 2009 organised

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Flashback: Soyombo’s award-winning history

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Freelance editor and investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo who is one of the three finalists for the International Journalist of the Year 2020 award by the One World Media has a track record of outstanding performance back in his days as a student journalist. He was the winner of the 2009 Student category of the Nigeria

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