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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NEWS WRITING SERIES #4: Rules For Writing News Stories
INTRODUCTION In the earlier segments of this series, we have examined the following topics: The Meaning of Journalism What is a News Story? Hard News and Soft News (Similarities and […]
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NEWS WRITING SERIES #3: Hard and Soft News (Similarities and Differences)
INTRODUCTION In the first two segments of this series, we dealt with the topics, “The Meaning of Journalism” and “What is a News Story?” Do read those segments before continuing […]
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NEWS WRITING SERIES #2: What Is A News Story?
INTRODUCTION In the first segment of this series, we discussed “The Meaning Of Journalism.” Click on the title to read that post if you haven’t done so before continuing with […]
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NEWS WRITING SERIES #1: The Meaning Of Journalism
INTRODUCTION News stories are the most common types of stories journalists write regardless of the class of media they work for – print, broadcast or web-based. Covering newsworthy events and […]
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BASICS OF NEWS REPORTING AND WRITING #3: How To Write The Lead And Body Of A News Story
INTRODUCTION In the first segment of this series, we briefly examined the most important criteria for determining news worthiness and tips for news gathering. In the second segment, we began […]
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BASICS OF NEWS REPORTING AND WRITING #2: How To Write A Headline
INTRODUCTION This is the second in our series on the Basics of News Reporting and Writing. Before proceeding with this segment, it is advisable that you go through the first […]
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BASICS OF NEWS REPORTING AND WRITING #1: Tips For News Gathering
INTRODUCTION This training series examines the basics or fundamentals of news reporting and writing. News is at the heart of journalism. It is the most important product provided by 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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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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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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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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