Category: The Media Blog
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 ...
The Media Blog: Our Best Friend’s Wedding is here
2017 is shaping up to be the year Red TV forces us all to take it seriously with this online ...
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 ...
The YNaija Ranking: Gidi Traffic is number 1 on our top 10 online media (social)
Nearing one million Twitter followers, Gidi Traffic is Nigeria’s most influential and most respected online media platform. It’s powerful presence ...
The YNaija Ranking: BellaNaija is number 1 on our top 50 online media (web) ranking
BellaNaija holds the top spot in this category for very obvious reasons. Over the years, BellaNaija has grown in leaps ...
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 ...
The YNaija Ranking: Urban 96.5 is Number 1 on our Top 10 Radio Station Ranking
The official Media Ratings haven’t come in, but the social media feedback and our un-official Uber-driver poll makes it clear ...
The YNaija Ranking: ONTV is number 1 on our Top 25 TV Station Ranking
ONTV continues to lead the TV ratings as far as the respected Media Facts ratings can tell, and since the ...
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 ...
The YNaija Rankings: Every month, we will rank the top films, TV and radio stations in Nigeria
YNaija will, from Wednesday, January 11, release a monthly countdown of platforms leading and lagging in the Nigerian media space. ...
The Media Blog: This Medium investor is doing us ‘boju boju’
Evan Williams wrote his own letter declaring that Medium has to fire 50 percent of team, and ‘re-position’, which only ...
The Media Blog: Evan Williams letter captures the BIG PROBLEM with premium platforms
From the guy that brought you Twitter, a hugely influential platform – that makes no money, and refuses to grow. ...
The Media Blog: The 5-tweet answer to people that say ‘Nigerians like consuming rubbish’
God bless you Justin. Oludolapo AdelanaDolapo is a writer and journalist who works with YNaija. He has interests in Christianity, ...
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 ...
The Media Blog: Soundcity came out swinging with the MVP Awards Festival
We won’t compare them to The Headies. That would be unfair, because they are clearly operating at completely different levels. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
The Media Blog: Betty Irabor just told a very important story
We said it before: publishing magazines in Nigeria is a difficult, largely thankless job. This morning, the publisher of one ...
Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (12)
1. Political reporting in a new age: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/journalism-post-truth-trump-2016-election-politics-susan-glasser-214523 2. The Year of Podcasts: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/the-50-best-podcasts-of-2016/510698/ 3. Facebook’s Fake News problems aren’t going away ...
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 ...
The Media Blog: Emmanuella gets a CNN feature
Not bad for a 6-year-old recording comedy skits from Port Harcourt, eh? We said it before – power shall continue ...
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 ...
The Media Blog: The most important detail from Toke Makinwa’s Rubbin’ Minds interview
You know when someone decides that they are putting their feet on the necks of everyone else, and they won’t ...
Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (11)
1. Fake News didn’t just start today: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/read/fake-news-in-1947-was-the-reason-for-a-real-life-x-file 2. American TV is really, really expensive: https://mic.com/articles/161740/here-s-how-much-it-costs-to-make-an-episode-of-the-walking-dead 3. Coming to grips with ...
The Media Blog: And we thought Toke was getting ready to chill
As in. We really thought the promo blitz was dying down. How many covers does this make it now? Even ...
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YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy