Babangida, Osoba, Disu lead media elites to Lagos for Vanguard Book launch, alumni reunion - ITREALMS

Members of the Vanguard Media Alumni Association are set to celebrate four decades of impactful publishing with the formal public presentation of a milestone book chronicling 40 years of the “refreshingly different” newspaper, reports ITREALMS.

The organization, comprising former staff of Vanguard Media Limited, will on Wednesday, August 19, launch “The Vanguard Chronology: 40 Years of Nigeria’s Leading Tabloid” at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, starting at 10:00 AM.

NLNG Media prize goes to Prisca Sam-Duru of Vanguard Newspapers for storytelling - ITREALMS

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The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) managements has recognized the media for exceptional coverage of The Prizes for Literature, Prizes for science in the last twenty years with the sum of 5million Naira doled out to Prisca Sam-Duru of Vanguard Newspapers, for her excellent story-writing in Literature and Science in the last twenty years, reports ITREALMS.

In his welcoming speech, the General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development, Nigeria LNG Limited, Mr. Andy Odeh appreciated the immense contributions of the media in sharing the significance of the awards to the public over the past two decades.

Vanguard wins @HackAgainstEbola Editor's lab

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The team from Vanguard, has won #HackAgainstEbola, organised by the Global Editors Network, Pan-Atlantic University and OSIWA (Open Society Initiative for West Africa) in partnership with ICFJ (International Center for Journalists) and sponsored by Google. 

Each team was composed of a journalist, a designer and a developer, and they had two days to build a prototype on a specific theme: ‘How to better cover and prevent Ebola’. It is part of a global programme called Editors Lab; a series of international hackdays.

The competition was won by the team from Vanguard, with a prototype called Ebola Go, information apps which gives the users all relevant information need on Ebola. Such information as news, write ups, photos, videos, data among others, which is web, mobile and SMS based. There is also a short code for Phone users where there is no internet. 

It also connects the users to doctors and doctors to users as well as hospitals. The apps 'draws information from all relevant site that have things to do with Ebola and other health issues.’

As one of the jury Evangeline de Bourgeoning explains ‘It is an extremely simple and efficient

system : without any internet connection and in just a few clicks the users have access to the

most important info about Ebola. This quick and cheap platform has the potential to become a

broadly used tool in West-African countries.’

The 2nd prize was given to Voice of Nigeria, with Hack Against Ebola and the 3rd prize to Unilag with Ebola Shield.

The audience choice went to Ebola Yarn, by TVC. The other teams participating were: The Nation Newspaper, News Agency of Nigeria, Channels Television, Yes International! Magazine, TELL Magazine, DigitalSENSE BusinessNews, Nigerian NewsDirect.

You can see all the projects on the GEN Community. Pictures of the event are available on our

Flickr account.

The winning team will be invited to participate in the Editors Lab Final, held in Barcelona during

the GEN Summit 2015, next June. They will compete against the other winners from the Editors

Lab.

The Jury was composed of Babatunde Akpeji, Knight International Journalism Fellow, ICFJ;  Mikang Longjan, Program Coordinator, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA); and Evangéline de Bourgoing, Programme Manager, Global Editors Network.

The next #HackAgainstEbola will be held in Dakar, mid-January.

 
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