Interviewing and Information Gathering: An Overview
This post gives a bird’s eye view of the course Interviewing and Information Gathering. It briefly shows the context and rationale for the course. It locates the course in the […]
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NYT’s Confirmation of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Story: How the Media Cheat the People
On Oct. 14, 2020, about two weeks before the US presidential elections in November that year, the New York Post (the country’s oldest newspaper) broke a story about emails recovered […]
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Why Rushing to Judgment is Wrong: A Christian Perspective
Everyday people come online to join the bashing bandwagon. They read one or two sentences of an accusation against someone and they quickly jump in to hurl invectives at the […]
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TYPES OF REPORTING II: INTERPRETATIVE REPORTING
Introduction: The limitations of straight news reporting inevitably gave rise to other methods of reporting, the first of which we will consider in this post. It is called interpretative reporting. […]
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Another Impeachment Conversation: Was there really a case against Trump?
Intro: I decided to share my joy about the acquittal of the 45th president of the US, Donald Trump, at the Senate impeachment trial brought against him as a private […]
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TYPES OF REPORTING I : STRAIGHT NEWS REPORTING
Introduction The work of covering newsworthy people, places, issues and events and crafting accurate and balanced stories from them is at the core of journalism. This work, called reporting, has […]
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Writing is Central to Every Area of Mass Communication
In this post, I explain the relevance and indispensability of writing to various areas of Mass Communication to challenge students and practitioners who are putting the barest minimum of efforts into improving their writing abilities to start making hay while the sun shines.
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MY RESPONSE TO AN ATTACK ON CHRISTIANS’ SUPPORT FOR TRUMP
In the last US presidential election, there is no way a Christian could in good conscience have supported the Democratic Party candidate, Joe Biden, over Donald Trump. Like him or not, Trump defended religious freedom and civil liberties while Biden moved in the opposite direction.
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DECEPTION (SHORT STORY)
She was saving herself for marriage and that was the reason she befriended Kayla, a serious student and decent Anglican who wouldn’t pressure her to sleep with anyone.
Well, Kayla was determined to do just that: sleep with anyone, and if possible do it frequently before she left the campus.
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5 WAYS TO AVOID BEING EASILY OFFENDED
Intro: It appears that getting offended has become the regular pastime of many people in today’s world. People are offended by any and everything. In May 2018, a white US […]
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FULL TEXT OF UTOMI’S JACKSONITE LECTURE ON THE MEDIA AND THE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE IN NIGERIA
THE MEDIA AND THE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE IN NIGERIA AT A TIME OF CRISIS PAPER PRESENTED BY PROFESSOR PAT UTOMI ON THE OCCASION OF THE 11TH JACKSON ANNUAL LECTURE ON JULY […]
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SUMMARY OF KEY SUBMISSIONS FROM UTOMI’S JACKSONITE LECTURE
The 11th Jacksonite Annual Lecture was held successfully at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018. The guest lecturer, Prof. Pat Utomi, […]
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THEY’RE PULLING THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES! (POEM)
I wrote this poem in August 2015 following Nigeria’s general elections and the reprehensible role played by both the local and foreign media in painting the Dr Goodluck Jonathan administration […]
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