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The Media Blog
April 24, 2017

Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content this week

1. How to write about historic political campaigns: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/emmanuel_macron 2. Social discourse in the age of being “cancelled”: http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/20/15179232/socially-conscious-criticism 3. Is there a problem with gendered language: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/23/allow-me-to-womansplain-the-problem-with-gendered-language 4. More talk about free speech: https://mic.com/articles/174976/bernie-sanders-not-allowing-ann-coulter-to-speak-at-berkeley-is-intellectual-weakness#.ZmALndQMG 5. Fake news lives to fight another day: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/russias-fake-news-machine-is-targeting-the-french-elections
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April 17, 2017

Reading Material: What you should be reading if you work in media content this week

1. The true life stories behind the Turkey vote that everyone is talking about. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/as-turkey-gears-up-to-vote-its-traitors-speak-out/523098/ 2. It seems like we’ve been asking forever, but will there ever be press freedom in Africa? http://venturesafrica.com/will-there-ever-be-press-freedom-in-africa/ 3. But elsewhere, it appears to be alive, and thriving. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/16/investigative-reporting-alive-well-prizes-prove-it 4. A fellowship fund for African content creators gains new legs. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2017/04/11/amplify-first-paid-fellowship-for-content-creators-in-africa-sees-inaugural-graduation-in-nairobi/#e1c6d5ba4027 5. America’s new... Read More
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April 11, 2017

The Media Blog: To his eternal shame, Nigerians now know that Reuben Abati is a breast man

At what point do we draw the line between the personal and public lives of our celebrities? Question as old as time. It’s even more dicey when the people in question don’t fit as easily into the ‘celebrity’ mold, like, for example, Reuben Abati. A ‘seasoned’ – even though, to be honest, we’ve always wondered... Read More
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April 10, 2017

Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content this week

1. How does a feminist make the case against feminism? http://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/3/6/14761392/feminism-capitalism-socialism-patriarchy-jessa-crispin 2. So Donald Trump actually helped CNN? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/magazine/cnn-had-a-problem-donald-trump-solved-it.html 3. Immersive Journalism as exercise in debauchery? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/i-tried-to-find-the-worst-bar-in-toronto-and-learned-everything 4. Trumps’ Inauguration was even more controversial for the press than most people thought. https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/mass-arrests-on-inauguration-day-swept-up-journalists-and?utm_term=.boW0pAo0v#.agm1QGL1V 5. Media is insular, but can that change anytime soon? http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-two-worlds-20170410-story.html
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April 5, 2017

#Throwback: From Beyoncé to Beckham, here are 3 Pepsi ads we can all agree we love (WATCH)

Yeah, Pepsi messed up big time with the Kendall Jenner ad, but it’s easy to forget they’ve given us some great ads in the past. Take this one (our personal favourite) with Beyonce, Britney Spears, Pink and Enrique Iglesias. Or this other, hilarious ad featuring footballers David Beckham, Roberto Carlos, and Ronaldinho. And finally, this... Read More
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April 3, 2017

Reading Material: Here’s what you need to be reading if you work in media content this week

1. Journalism so great it makes a great time out of reading about something like gentrification. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/nyregion/the-state-of-your-block-2017-new-york-city.html 2. But then even great journalism won’t be enough to fix what’s broken about the media. http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/from-the-unbanked-to-the-unnewsed-just-doing-good-journalism-wont-be-enough-to-bring-back-reader-trust/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=b0e87a6c8a-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-b0e87a6c8a-396044165 3. Resist the internet, on the internet. It does make sense. Really. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/resist-the-internet.html 4. But if you can’t, here’s why. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/technology-addiction-irresistible-by-adam-alter.html... Read More
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April 2, 2017

SaharaReporters moves up to #1, Zikoko slides into the top 5 | The latest YNaija online media (web) countdown

They say controversy sells and no one proves this more right now than SaharaReporters which takes the #1 spot on our online (web) countdown. The past month has seen the typically controversial site mired in a series of noisy and dramatic events. Most notable might be the Dino Melaye certificate saga, but SR was also at the... Read More
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April 2, 2017

The YNaija Ranking: Instablog9ja retains the #1 position on our latest online media (social) countdown

For a second straight month Instablog9ja is at #1 on our online media (social) countdown. The Instagram handle remains the clear leader in a sea of social media competitors that only manage to do part of what Instablog does. Elsewhere, Funny African Pics slips to the #10 spot for similar reasons, albeit from a different... Read More
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April 2, 2017

The YNaija Ranking: Inspiration FM moves up into the top 10 on our top 25 radio stations countdown

There’s a curious thing that a lot of people experience when a new building springs up somewhere. It’s expressed most succinctly in the question: what was there before? It’s particularly common in Lagos where, if asked what previously stood in the locations of any of the malls around, dwellers would be hard pressed to provide an... Read More
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March 31, 2017

The Media Blog: The Spot is ending and we don’t know what to do

It’s been 4 years already? Yeah, we know when EbonyLife TV launched but time really has flown, hasn’t it? Time in which The Spot has grown to be one of the most stable and reliable fixtures on our tv screens. It’s amazing we’re saying this given our initial reactions to the show, which ranged from... Read More
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March 28, 2017

The Media Blog: Bolanle Austen-Peters just changed the game with the launch of the Terra Arena

93 Days was a landmark film for Nollywood. The tragedy of its tepid commercial (we’ll chalk this up to poor marketing) and critical response (seriously, where are the awards?) is something we will not tire of mentioning. Credit to all parties involved. From the actors, veterans confirming their statuses (Bimbo Akintola, a living legend if... Read More
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March 26, 2017

StarTimes Dish TV is packed with everything you need from TV and more

As we inch closer to the times when erstwhile television audience would have completely ditched the offerings of the box for online content that can easily be accessed on their mobile devices, pay-TV companies are doing everything to keep up. Everything! Now StarTimes appears to have recognized the need to step up its own game so by... Read More
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March 24, 2017

The Media Blog: There is no other way to say it – Tinsel is legendary

Say what you will about the show, but 2000 episodes of a television show, shot in Nigeria, is not beans. Especially in the face of setbacks like studio fires and flooding, none of which were enough to take the show off air for even one day. Who would have thought when it started in 2008... Read More
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March 24, 2017

StarTimes might be set to change the game with this new Integrated Digital TV

Does anyone ever feel burdened by trying to figure out which remote works for the TV and which one is the decoder’s while also trying to sort the crying kids or fix dinner? Okay, if that experience does not suit yours, then this should. Electricity bills! Daily soaring high and high till you can hardly... Read More
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