Tag Archives: MEDIA

Nigeria’s digital media ecosystem recorded a 26.2% decline in total readership traffic in 2025, according to the newly released SquirrelPR RANKED 2026 Report, signalling a major shift in how audiences consume news and how influence is measured across the industry.

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By Adeola Ogunlade The future of journalism rests on the next generation of journalists, many of whom begin their journey during internships at media houses. This report sheds light on a growing concern: the significant gap between the number of students studying mass communication and those who actually return to pursue careers in the media industry. It explores the challenges …

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The Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals recently concluded a two-day media fellowship titled “Media Entrepreneurship 2024” in Lagos. Experts from multimedia, television, and radio sectors of the media emphasised the importance of combining passion with a sound business model to succeed as media entrepreneurs. DAYO EMMANUEL reports.   Young media entrepreneurs have been urged to operate their media businesses with …

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Nigerian journalists have been urged to dedicate more time to reporting issues affecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country. The call came during the presentation of Muffled Voices; a publication containing the report from two months media monitoring of six newspapers and two online platforms in Nigeria. With support from the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), Bread for …

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Dayo Emmanuel The media has been urged to play active role in combating gender related hate speech though objective and conflict sensitive reporting. The call was made at a media roundtable organised by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos recently. Themed ‘The role of the media in combating gender related hate speech online through objective and conflict sensitive reporting,’ the …

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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Samuel Ogundipe, a Premium Times newspaper reporter who was arrested yesterday and is being detained by the Nigerian Police at the Force headquarters in Abuja for refusing to disclose the source of his information for a news report. In a statement issued today by its Programme …

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Newspaper publishers in the country, Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON; Editors and Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, have described the New Media Bill currently before the National Assembly as draconian, unconstitutional, anti-people, anti-business and anti-free speech. Consequently, Nigerian Press Organisation, NPO, and other media stakeholders have asked the National Assembly to drop the bill. They also asked the Senate to …

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Lagos State government has promised to allow members of the media to review and critique bills coming from the state before such will be passed into laws. This is to forstal protests and agitation such as those that greeted the passage of the Land Use Charge law that recently aggrieved some members of the public before the government backtracked. Commissioner …

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Folake Sokoya  Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has disclosed that the mass media plays a critical role in the development of the Country. The Governor made this disclosure while receiving the delegation, International Press Institute (IPI), World Congress Committee, led by the Former Director-General of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Dr Tonnie Iredia, at the government house, Ilorin on Monday. …

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Young professionals from developing countries can apply for a scholarship to study in Germany. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, in German) supports postgraduate studies and training in a variety of subjects, including media studies. Institutions that offer media studies include Leipzig University, Bauhaus University Weimar and Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Candidates must have completed their college degree in …

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