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According to a 2022 survey published by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) in its Gender-Based Violence Reporting Handbook, of 120 Nigerian journalists interviewed, threats were the second topmost challenge mentioned by those reporting GBV, after silence from victims and survivors.

  Barrister Pelumi Olajengbesi, Managing Partner at Law Corridor has criticised the amendment of the Cybercrimes Act 2015, stressing that the law was manipulated to suppress press freedom and freedom of expression.   Olajengbesi said this in Abuja on Saturday at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Correspondents’ Chapel end-of-year symposium, with the theme, ‘Understanding the Cybercrime Act 2015, The Media ethics perspective’.  

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Monrovia - Forty-five student journalists from at least four tertiary institutions in Liberia are set to benefit from a training organized by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) CJID, formerly known as the Premium Times Centre

“As journalists, it is our responsibility to draw sustained attention to these issues.” He described Professor Robie, former coordinator of USP Journalism Programme and the founding director of the Pacific Media Centre based at New Zealand’s Auckland University of Technology, as a “champion” of media freedom and media development in the Pacific. Professor David Robie with his wife, Del Abcede, and Tagata Pasifika broadcaster John Pulu at the Pacific Media Centre’s symposium last mon...

THE VOICE OF FIJI’S CHURCHES Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/15/2000 - 00:00 By David Robie © USP Journalism Programme SUVA, Fiji Islands (June 14, 2000 – USP Journalism Programme/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire)---Fijis churches have made belated appeals this week for their parishioners to refuse support for rebel leader George Speights insurrection and for the 31 hostages to be freed. But leaders of the countrys most influential church, the Methodist Church, have given mixed messages by...