CEO, Diamond Publications, and DAME Trustee, Lanre Idowu, has careworn the necessity for journalists to embrace options journalism and interact in indepth remedy of points.
Talking not too long ago on the thirty third version of the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) Awards in Lagos, he noticed that what wants higher honing is the depth of remedy, higher framing of points, and the necessity to embrace options journalism, and fewer of merely signalling points.
He added the central message of tales which have been nominated for awards is one in every of hope, of the necessity for a greater society, and of a perception that Nigeria can and will likely be higher.
Idowu noticed a lot of the reporting revolves round public service advocacy. The journalists, he stated, “consistent with their skilled, constitutional, and ethical accountability have churned out enterprising studies within the effort to attract consideration to gaping gaps between coverage and actuality, and between the pursuit of a significant life and the limitations standing therein.”
In a associated improvement, the Editor/Director of PM Information and The Information Journal, Kunle Ajibade, has paid tributes to the late pioneer Managing Director of The Guardian, Stanley Macebuh, and Prof of English and African Cultural Research, Tejumola Olaniyan.
Nonetheless holding fond recollections of those two, he stated Macebuh, who died 14 years in the past and Prof. Olaniyan who died 5 years in the past, made The Guardian a literary concepts market.
His phrases: “When Macebuh was the Managing Director of The Guardian, Rutam Home was a giant literary tent that sheltered gifted artists and writers. Tales had been rigorously investigated and splendidly written. Underneath him, The Guardian was all the time an exquisite newspaper. We should not neglect one in every of these illustrious ancestors of Nigerian journalism.”
He recalled, “one of many hallmarks of Macebuh’s period was the colourful Guardian Literary Collection. Earlier than Olaniyan left Obafemi Awolowo College, he had written many articles for The Guardian literary collection. He was a star scholar and proficient author. He wrote on Fela, Wole Soyinka and others.”
