Category: Media
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A Letter to the Young Journalist
Dear Adaeze, Congratulations on the byline. I remember mine — a short piece for Broad Street Ventures in 1988, buried on page seven, about a labour dispute at a printing press in Yaba. Nobody read it. I read it fourteen times. You asked me, in your careful email, what I wish I had known when…
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The Newsroom Is Not Dying — It Is Being Rebuilt in the Suburbs
There is a myth, popular in the marbled offices of Ikoyi and Victoria Island, that Nigerian journalism is dying. I want to submit, respectfully, that Nigerian journalism is not dying. Lagos elite journalism is contracting. Abuja beltway journalism is calcifying. But in the alleys of Ejigbo, in the fabric stalls of Isolo, in the mechanic…