MEDIA

Panelists at the 2019 Global investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC19) in Hamburg, Germany, have identified four major challenges as impediments to robust media practice in the world. They listed poor funding, weak skills, insecurity and inadequate work tools as the factors affecting journalism practice and pragmatic contribution of journalists to societal...

The President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), Mr. Dotun Oladipo, has challenged journalists to occupy the social media space in the bid to promote peace in the country. Oladipo, who is also the Managing Editor and CEO of Premium Eagle Media Limited, publishers of The Eagle Online,...

    Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) invites applications from interested professional, or freelance journalists in Africa for its Journalist of the Year Award. CRITERIA Each piece of work submitted must be an untold story from Africa and focused on Africans The piece must reflect high quality journalism work, highlighting...

A media advocacy group with focus on curbing children malnutrition in Nigeria, under the auspices of the Media Against Child Malnutrition (MeCAM) has explained why it was established, saying that the goal is to bridge the gap in nutrition reportage. The National Coordinator, MeCAM, Mr. Remmy Nweke in his intervention...

    The PUNCH has removed its Daily Editor, Martin Ayankola over an offensive cartoon published in the newspaper last Thursday. Also asked to resign was the Saturday Editor, Olabisi Deji-Folutile over the same issue. There have been an outrage and backlash over a cartoon published on the back page...

  The Joint Union of the News Agency of Nigeria urged the Federal Government not to reappoint former Managing Director of the Agency, Mr Bayo Onanuga, because reappointing him would inflict pain on the staff. Mr Gambo Haruna, who spoke on behalf of the unions at a news conference in...

  Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos  has admonished the media to recognise its indispensable role in building a progressive society. He said that media practitioners should be cautious of  their  choices  and usages of words, images and the  content of their output. Martins spoke on...

  The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday washed his hands off the draconian guidelines meant to shut out media organisations covering the National Assembly. National Assembly management had in a memo on Monday through its director, information, Agada Emmanuel, asked all newsmen covering the National Assembly to...

  WhatsApp on Monday urged all of its 1.5 billion users to update their apps as an added precaution against hackers who remotely install surveillance software on phones and other devices. According to reports, the hackers were able to operate using a major vulnerability in the messaging app. WhatsApp, which...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has saluted Nigerian journalists as they join their professional colleagues across the world to mark World Press Freedom Day. President Buhari, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Thursday, urged the journalists to use the day...