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The Media Blog: Huffington Post KILLS it with this headline
We are loving it so hard, we want to marry it. On the matter of Leaker-In-Chief, Donald J Trump, prattling about his country's secrets to their arch-enemies from Russia and…
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[The Media Blog] This is EXACTLY how not to spend N614,000
What has this world even come to? This is a full-page, coloured ad in a daily newspaper in Nigeria. Someone really paid for this??? Let's provide a little bit…
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The Media Blog: The first episode of King Women with Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett is immense
Immense simply in terms of how much weight is packed behind every single word Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett, the subject of the first episode, utters. Kemi Adetiba's interview series couldn't have picked…
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Reading material: Here’s what you should be reading if you work in media content (15)
1. PR for everybody? 2. First Instagram Stories, now WhatsApp gets in on the game too. Is this the end of Snapchat? 3. Or have rumours of Snapchat's demise been…
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The Media Blog: A webseries in French? Red TV continues to intrigue us
It's called Boutique Hotel, and appears to have been made in Côte d'Ivoire. It stars Ivorians, and it's entirely in French. It's subtitled in English, of course, but that's beside…
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The Media Blog: Which one is Media Room Hub again?
Azuka Ogujuiba, the person behind that Tiwa Savage interview has come again with a new one. It's something called Media Room Hub. It's supposed to be an online magazine. The name confuses…
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Reading Material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (14)
1. What does law enforcement owe the media? 2. Is there one simple idea needed to understand Trump supporters? 3. This content business comes with consequences. 4. Not even Kellyanne Conway…
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The Media Blog: They should just take this ‘The Shade Corner’ back wherever they brought it from
It seemed like a curious concept. It piqued our interests at least. But after 2 underwhelming episodes, we're not really sure we're interested in seeing more of The Shade Corner. We…
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The Media Blog: Even the mighty fall sometimes
Great picture, eh? Beautiful couple. As long as you don't look too closely. Turns out, even when you are as big as Genevieve Magazine, mistakes will still happen.
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The Media Blog: Genevieve Magazine is not your mate
Sure, that's a great cover. Eku Edewor is stunning as ever, and we could choose to focus on that. Or we could choose to focus on the weirdness of the…
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StarTimes has entered the football craze full blast
The crave for quality football content in the country is absolutely off the hook. Week in, week out, millions of youth are glued to TV screens watching football games. The…
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We hope you’re taking note of the Chinese Super League. You should actually
The rave of the moment in the footballing world is currently the Chinese Super League (CSL). The League currently has the highest paid footballer in the world – Carlos Tevez.…
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StarTimes is simply defying all odds
In this time of recession, many subscribers to digital television are looking for any and every opportunity to save money. Many PAY TV providers have developed a habit of increasing…
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The Media Blog: Navel gazing about the media’s low approval ratings is nonsense
Whenever the media in America does anything that someone somewhere doesn’t like, the response is now predictable: X and X is why the media has such low approval ratings. Now,…
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The Media Blog: Let’s talk about media and ‘The forbidden experiment’
Legend has it that King James IV once stretched, yawned and thought to himself ‘hm - what language would babies speak if they didn’t have any humans to learn language…
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The Media Blog: Did Buzzfeed finally cross a line?
Buzzfeed published an 'unverified memo' about Trump and Russia - and all hell has broken loose across America's media (and on Trump's timeline, of course, but that is no longer…
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The Media Blog: Abeg, Bola Tinubu should go and find several seats
Every now and again, people – including questionable characters who have not satisfactorily answered corruption allegations – mount a bully pulpit to accuse ‘the social media’ (a ridiculous term that…
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The Media Blog: The 5-tweet answer to people that say ‘Nigerians like consuming rubbish’
God bless you Justin.
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The Media Blog: Mania Magazine returns
We probably shouldn't call it a return, seeing as they never officially "left" or went anywhere to begin with. But like we said before, their appearances now are fairly unpredictable,…
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The Media Blog: The fall of NaijaGistLive has been spectacular to behold
Who would have thought? A news story on a major canadian network about a Nigerian gossip blog? But, it happened. We watched. With caution. Same way we did when we heard…
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The Media Blog: We’re curious about this Buzzfeed video
It might be nothing. And lord knows we fuss over things that turn out to be nothing sometimes, but we can't say this buzzfeed video didn't make us think. The…
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The Media Blog: Big Brother Naija has us cautiously optimistic
No, we don't have any inside info. We haven't seen or heard anything in particular to suggest that this won't be a complete waste of time. But something tells us…
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The Media Blog: RED TV might have its first hit on its hands
We'll be honest. We had reservations about RED TV's new reality/travel show, 'Here and Now: The Adventures of TASA.' But clearly, we either didn't know what we were saying, or…
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The Media Blog: Mazino on Men’s Corner is not bad at all
We think EbonyLife TV is onto a good show here. Sure, some of the topics are a bit inane, and some of the contributors on the confessional segments come off incredibly vapid,…
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The Media Blog: The digital TV transition is finally happening
It turns out Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed meant it when he said the Digital TV Switchover (DSO) would happen in Abuja in 2016. After starting the transition…
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The Media Blog: In praise of BellaNaija’s quiet discipline
2016 has been a pivotal year for BellaNaija. Every year is probably pivotal for BellaNaija, to be honest, but this year saw a number of marked moves into new territory.…
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Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (12)
1. Political reporting in a new age: 2. The Year of Podcasts: 3. Facebook's Fake News problems aren't going away so easily, but at least they're trying: 4. PR vs.…
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The Media Blog: Ndani Lifestyle is a curious development
In an age where many media platforms are making the move from text to video, it's surprising (to put it one way) to see one pivot from video back to…
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The Media Blog: “What did you become?” | Someone has finally come for Toke
She's called Iyabeji (or OroboDiva depending upon some parameters we haven't quite figured out yet), and she has a vlog called the Iyabeji Show. The log itself has apparently been…
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The Media Blog: This headline is all the proof you need that news is dead in Nigeria
And we are here for that first comment. All of it.
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