Category: The Media Blog
The Media Blog: Vox gets more Emmy nominations than the BBC and the Washington Post
The times they a-changing. When a small online operation – Vox.com – gets more Emmy nominations than legacy organizations like ...
The Media Blog: Yesterday, the New York Times was a total bitch
In an editorial- an editorial o – the New York Times went full blast on disgraced and resigned White House ...
The Media Blog: Chai, Nigerian journalists have suffered – just see this headline
And why? “We have arrangements. Only the foreign media are permitted to enter the venue or snap pictures of Malala, ...
The Media Blog: What Pulse is doing across Nigeria is ohmygosh amazing
So our editor in chief rushes into our small space raving about this ah-mazing thing Pulse is doing. We first ...
[The Media Blog]: Nothing much, just Nigerian media icons gathered together
Media icons across hard and soft sell media came together on 13 July to launch a loose organisation called the ...
The Media Blog: America’s newspapers are begging government to save them
The irony of all of this, especially under Donald J. Trump. Newspapers in America have run to the government to ...
The Media Blog: MTV Shuga is now recording a new season – and Seyi Shay is involved
It looked last year like they weren’t going to get the funding to push the cultural phenomenon that MTN Shulga ...
[The Media Blog]: Er, Jesse Ghansah of OMGDigital, you are so wrong
So the media blitz for OMGVoice.com continues after they raised over $1million dollars. Yay for the market, and for content. ...
[The Media Blog]: This criticism of how the media covers Trump makes some sense
This particular quote resonates: When the mainstream media explodes with Shakespearean sound and fury over Trump’s broadsides, conservatives scratch their ...
The Media Blog: So, basically, this stupid ThisDay story blames ‘feminism’ for Ireti Doyle’s marital issues
You have to read the stupidity to believe it. They even blame Mo Abudu for giving Ireti Doyle new roles. ...
YNaija Ranking: Hip TV rises to the top 5 in our top 25 TV stations countdown
Hip TV takes the fifth position in the YNaija Ranking for TV stations, The Ayo Animashaun-owned station which was previously ...
The Media Blog: TheNativeMag is the new hang out spot for the cooler culture kids
Quietly, but steadily, TheNativeMag is owning the coolest sections of the culture with a perceptive, nuanced views of the goings-on ...
The Media Blog: The EatDrinkLagos blog has a new dress
We don’t know how long it has worn this new look – which is its own form of commentary on ...
The Media Blog: We really, really, really, really, really, really like The Republic
We’ve been aware of The Republic since last year. It aims to be some sort of Slate/Salon/Atlantic for Nigeria (yes, ...
The Media Blog: This is how you know that Akah Nnani has it
The fact that we spent more than 15 minutes watching him just living life and hanging out with his (incredibly ...
The Media Blog: At its worst, Konbini is confusing, at its best, it’s the place to go for good news
You’re probably not paying much attention to Konbini.com.ng, the Nigerian blog that harvested much of the brightest talent from Zikoko, ...
The Media Blog: We are actually excited about the new Fifty series
We know ‘Fifty’ the movie had a lot of ‘haters’, mostly converging upon the alleged lack of a story. That’s ...
The Media Blog: Everything about this piece on the Twitter Outrage Machine resonates with us
This is us nodding our heads in vigorous ‘A-Daniel-Has-Come-To-Judgement agreement: “Celebrity Misspeaks and the Internet Piles On” is the kind ...
The Media Blog: Have you noticed there are no new platforms that have emerged this year?
This just occurred to us the other day. Think about it: What new media platform has emerged this year? It’s ...
The Media Blog: Oh God. But did anybody beg them to bring back ‘On the real’?
The official press release starts correctly enough with this ominous warning: “Prepare for more ‘realness’ with a second season of ...
The Media Blog: Pulse is on the move – literally and figuratively
This is the kind of post only those who are crazy about insider-media gist will care about. But that’s why ...
The Media Blog: What Jimoh Ibrahim did to the guys at National Mirror is wickedness
Of course you already know this: everything so-called billionaire, Jimoh Ibrahim touches turns to shit. His murderous hands have killed ...
The Media Blog: The (ugh) ‘Buzzfeed of Africa’ just got $1.1m funding, and everybody is now fully tensioned
Everyone we know is sending email threads and WhatsApp messages to everyone we know who works in the media, sharing ...
The Media Blog: Hope you heard that Facebook is now in the business of TV production
This was announced Monday. It is working with a small group of partners to start releasing episodes from around August. ...
The Media Blog: If you are a young woman looking for a female mentor, all you need is Kemi Adetiba’s King Women
We know there is a mentorship movement these days, everyone looking for a magic mentor – most likely famous – ...
The Media Blog: Linda Ikeji just reminded all of us that the critics don’t matter, with this shoot
They’ve said she is too trashy, too controversial, too every-unpleasant-word-in-the-books. And yet she keeps moving, focused, resolute on remaking the ...
The Media Blog: We really like what the ‘Ojukokoro’ director is doing next
You know we totally adored the film when it came out. And now, Dare Olaitan, director and writer of Ojukokoro ...
The Media Blog: The New York Times just told a bad-ass Nigerian story – about Boko Haram
The kind of journalism that inspires. The New York Times, working with the Pulitzer Centre delivers a long, long, long ...
The Media Blog: Zikoko just launched a new content platform called Formation, and… uhm…
You know already that we like Zikoko. Someone on the team said ‘liked’, which is a way of saying he ...
The Media Blog: Jeff Bezos just pointed the entire media the way of the future
You know he has the credibility on anything at all. The kind that comes from owning the top of the ...
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