Everyone in the media industry that pays attention to online conversation has been talking about Toyin Subair’s significant opus on why he failed with HiTV – an ambitious media experiment if there ever was. There was one even more ambitious, and just as consequential – and it was NEXT newspapers, founded by Pulitzer-prize winner and... Read More

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May 2, 2013

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Sen. Tokunbo Afikuyomi’s iron fish – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze For me, the biggest regret is that the website 234Next was pulled down by my former employer. There were a lot of records of interest stored there, some of which can still be seen using the Internet Archiving service. In response to the last tonic you got before we all went a-holidaying Ade Ipaye... Read More

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February 23, 2012

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“One after the other, the writers left…” – Olatunji Dare grieves for NEXT Newspapers

by Olatunji Dare The boldest and most ambitious experiment in Nigerian journalism since the founding of The Guardian in 1983 ended three weeks ago after a run of nearly three years. And what a run it was! Its very name, 234NEXT, signalled a departure from the ho-hum titles of newspapers, not just in Nigeria,... Read More

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