Dapo Olorunyomi, publisher of Premiums Times, believes that the best way out is to establish a fact-check unit in every newsroom. It used to be so easy. A reporter brings a story and the excited editor goes through it and simply publishes it, confident that the claims are correct. Very often, impressed editors offered some […]
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Beti Baiye and Ibukun Oguntola — The media plays a significant role in how the public responds to health issues. Mass media, print, television, radio and internet have considerable power, reaching a wide and diverse audience, raising awareness about issues, framing how we think about issues and what we should be concerned about. The media […]
Addis Abeba — The management of Addis Standard newsroom would like to announce to its esteemed readers that after clearing the misunderstanding with the Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA), which led to the temporary interruption of its publication, the regular work of online publication will resume effective as of today, July 21/2021. Based on the constructive […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the grossly unjust prison sentences that two Moroccan journalists, Omar Radi and Imad Stitou, received from a court in Casablanca yesterday after proceedings marked by many irregularities. Convicted on charges of rape and espionage, Radi was sentenced to six years in prison, while Stitou was sentenced to 12 months in […]
Ethiopia’s news website Addis Standard says it has been given approval by the government to resume operations this week after it was suspended over accusations it advanced the agenda of fighters in the war-torn northern Tigray region. The English-language website and monthly magazine said Monday that the country’s media regulator admitted legal missteps in revoking […]
Call for leading investigative journalist to be granted re-trial Radi had previously been targeted by notorious Pegasus spyware ‘Condemning someone to six years in prison after such flawed proceedings is not justice’ – Amna Guellali Responding to today’s sentencing of Moroccan journalist and government critic Omar Radi to six years in prison after a trial […]
THE late veteran journalist Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu has been described as a rare breed of journalists whose skills where developed and sharpened by the liberation struggle. Ndlovu died at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) on Friday morning following a heart ailment. Ndlovu was 87 years old. Before joining the main media stream, Ndlovu was the […]
Festus Akanbi The National Broadcasting Commission has barred television and radio stations in Nigeria from divulging “details” of the activities of bandits, terrorists, and kidnappers in their reports. NBC, in a statement specifically directed radio and television stations not to “glamourise the nefarious activities of insurgents” during their daily newspaper reviews. Many of the broadcast […]
The deceased worked with the Ondo State Radiovision Corporation (OSRC) and Orange FM before joining Elizade University as its PRO. The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ondo State Council, has declared seven days of mourning to honour a departed colleague, Olubunmi Afuye, who was killed on Thursday when armed robbers stormed a bank. Mr Afuye, […]
Nairobi — In response to Ethiopian authorities’ withdrawal today of the news website Addis Standard’s license, prompting the outlet to suspend operations, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement: “For years, Addis Standard has been an important source of critical reporting and commentary on Ethiopia. Today’s move to withdraw its license is the […]
“We have been on this process for a while and right now, we have suspended it for more consultation to happen,” a lawmaker says. The sponsor of the controversial Nigeria Press Council (NPC) and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) amendment bills, Segun Odebunmi, on Tuesday said that the House has agreed to suspend the bills. […]
Nigerian newspapers expressed their disdain for the bills in their respective editorials on Tuesday. Another round of media solidarity, this time as editorials in major dailies in Nigeria, has followed Monday’s widely circulated advertorial calling on the government to shut down two controversial media bills at the National Assembly. Nigerian newspapers expressed their disdain for […]
Officials and journalists speak of the importance of Dubawa and fact-checking to the Sierra Leone society. The government of Sierra Leone Tuesday in Freetown gave a full-throated support for expanded freedom of the media in the sub region, stressing that journalism is the oxygen of democracy, and that freedom of expression has been the cue […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said he will never be part of any bill to gag the media in Nigeria but noted that there was a difference between regulating and gagging the media. He said though the constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and expression, it was, however, not absolute, adding that […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday said he would not be a party to any bill that sought to gag media practitioners. Gbajabiamila made the assertion at an award ceremony tagged ” Recognising Good Governance and Legislative Excellence in the Face of Adversity,” in Abuja. The speaker was reacting […]
Addis Abeba — The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued a statement discussing the arrest of Awlo and Ethio-Forum journalists and staff members and urging authorities to follow due process and release the detained journalists and staff members if court orders were not issued for their arrests. “The EHRC has been closely monitoring the situation […]
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has reacted to campaign against moves by the National Assembly to pass bills providing tighter regulations for the media, declaring that no institution in the country is above the law. He lamented that, despite its attempt to ensure the proper checks and balances for the Executive, […]
A total of N4.8 billion was allocated to NIA to monitor in the 2021 Supplementary Budget approved by the National Assembly last week. A total of N4.8 (4,870,350,000) billion has been allocated to the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to monitor WhatsApp messages, phone calls, text messages, among others. Of the figure, N1.93 billion was earmarked […]