Nigerian
Media Leaders: Voices Beyond the Newsroom features conversations
with more than 80 media leaders across print, broadcast and the academia. Media scholar, Richard Ikiebe, of the School
of Media and Communication, Pan Atlantic
University, Lagos edited the four-volume work.
The research is a collaboration
between the Nigerian Guild of Editors and the School of Media and
Communication, Pan Atlantic University.
Ikiebe said he was motivated to
undertake the work to fill the gaps in the study
of Nigerian journalism since the pioneering work of Alfred Omu’s Press and Politics in Nigeria, 1880-1937 published
in 1978. “It became imperative as many
of the pioneers have passed on without sharing their experiences and know-how,” he added.
The book represents a
significant contribution to the knowledge
of the media. It consists of interviews with 75 media players in the Nigerian
print and broadcast media, spanning 1935 to 2010, and covers various themes of
media leadership and management, circulation and distribution, readership,
changing media landscape, media and military, as well as the effects of social
media and changing demographic patterns.
Those featured in the work
include Sam Amuka, Patrick Dele Cole, Christopher Kolade, Vincent Maduka, Segun
Osoba, Garba Shehu, Tony Momoh, Lade Bonuola, Ray Ekpu, Kevin Ejiofor, Muhammed
Haruna, Adamu Ciroma, Doyin Abiola, Areoye
Oyebola, Ted Iwere and Laban Namme. It also included John Momoh, Frank
Aigbogun, Femi Kusa, Kabir Yusuf, Idowu Sobowale and Festus Adesanoye.
Ikiebe who serves as a Senior Fellow and Director of the
Centre for Leadership in Journalism at the PAU also serves as Vice Chairman and
Director of Cornerstone Insurance Plc., In the late 1970s and 80s, he served as
a Reporter and Staff Writer of the Daily Times and Newswatch Magazine. He also served in Government as Special
Adviser in the Presidency and Ministry of Information under different
administrations.
He holds a Masters degree in International Relations from
the University of Ohio and Bachelors degree in Journalism from the University
of Wisconsin. Ikiebe is a doctoral research
scholar at the University of Westminster, UK.
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