LAGOS, Monday, October 29, 2018: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today inducted the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) into its Freedom of Information (FOI) “Hall of Shame”, saying the institution’s sundry violations of the provisions of the FOI Act also amount to a breach of its primary mandate to make …

Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has launched its fifth annual edition of the Affordability Report, which draws insight to issues around internet access and affordability as well as a growing number of countries acknowledging the need to put digital strategies at the heart of their plans for development and economic …

  Access Now, a non-governmental organization that defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world, is calling for proposals from individuals and organisations interested in hosting sessions at  RightsCon Tunis, scheduled to hold in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, from June 11 to14, 2019. Access Now …

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) will host the 2018 edition of the Digital Media Asia Conference from November 7 to 9, 2018, in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. The conference would bring together a cross-functional team to make sure no one misses the many sessions covering …

The African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG) took participants through a two-day Internet Society’s Collaborative Internet Governance Project Workshop, a pre-AfriSIG event  to set the pace for AfriSIG and  build participants’ negotiation and conflict resolution skills in the context of multi-party consensus decision-making processes. Titled: How to Effectively Participate in …

The Chairman of Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Alhaji Ikra Aliyu Bilbis, has expressed the determination of the Commission to ensure decency and professionalism in the broadcast media coverage of Nigeria’s 2019 elections saying: “As a Commission we are committed to make the broadcast media in Nigeria effective and impactful …

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has released the list of broadcast stations that it said breached the provisions of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code during the second quarter of the year, April to June 2018. The list documents 49 cases of breaches of various Sections of the Code by radio stations …

Applications are now being accepted for the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships for its Class of 2020.  The fellowships are open to candidates from around the world to work on ideas to address the most urgent problems facing journalism. Successful applicants will spend their time on individual and collaborative projects …

The Highway Africa Centre is now accepting applications from practicing journalists for fellowships to attend a three-day course scheduled for November 26 to 28, 2018, on Solutions Journalism with special focus on Health, Development and Development Science. Successful applicants will also have the opportunity to attend this year’s Highway Africa …

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Unitd Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) are jointly launching a research and writing competition for journalists aged between 15 and 25. Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), will serve as  patron of the competition. The Research Challenge …