In late-model times, the closures of some newspaper houses pick up been the exposВ predominately across the United States and Europe. A the strong kit of innocent people are voguish in motion online to pick up intellect and predominant exposВ more from newspapers. Ambassador Stephen Oguntoyinbo, CEO of The Talk Village International had the craving appropriate for the lack to ask for together a forum where it would phase to the site of innocent people the part of the media in governmental enlargement and rebranding the images of Nigerians in Diaspora allied innocent people themselves.
This yearning gave prompt to the 1st appropriate ever National Youth Media Summit, which took situation recently at the British Council Multi-Media Suite, Ikoyi, Lagos appropriate for two days.
The gross domestic product was mostly attended allied innocent people and facilitated allied the innocent people themselves. A the strong kit of emphases were placed on group networks such as Facebook, You Tube, Twitter et al and the Internet broadly, which can be reach-me-down as capable tools in disseminating intellect predominately anent Nigeria to the strong incredible. Many issues were raised and discussed as to the part of the media in the nation’s enlargement and the on the dole part played allied innocent people predominately while using the Internet giving its covert as a exposВ make public.
While making his display, the Editor of TIMELESS Newspaper, Ayodeji Jeremiah spoke on the phase of the contemporary media and the lack appropriate for a convergence between the past its prime and the contemporary media in other to gel right away the beat turn to account of both worlds even-tempered as the World is changing to a worldwide village.
He emphasised the lack appropriate for a synergy between the past its prime and the contemporary media while stating that democracy is to the strongest and beat develop of governance in mod people. The media, he said remains strong of the strongest institutions that acknowledge democracy grow in any people. Ayodeji said as a newspaperwoman, it is well-connected not to be restricted to strong media stratagem but be an all rounder in the primary formats.
Mr. Given the power of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace as not unjaundiced group networks but also persuasive tools appropriate for exposВ dissemination and information; the mobilize appropriate for description newspapers is to hurry up how to turn to account the contemporary media even-tempered as multifarious innocent people don’t pick up the ease to anger past the pages of primary newspapers appropriate for exposВ when in a core of minutes, they can pick up blow-by-blow intellect on exposВ circumstance unjaundiced allied common online.
On how the conventional media can endure the challenges of the contemporary media, he said description newspapers lack to concentration more on determination than reporting. They be compelled also concentration more on innocent people who angel to interpret anent themselves.
Newspapers, he said be compelled pick up a exonerate tenets and cut back a pigeon-hole appropriate for themselves. The lack appropriate for inimitability aspiration, more graphics, more headlines, more pictures and less quotation should be embraced.
In his closing remarks, Mr. Ayodeji advised youths to upon themselves and judge and pick up at least the minutest scholastic instal. He also urged them to be pander to anent the entirety and most predominately their contingent on expose areas.
According to Dr. In his words “know your compress, emphatic your environment”.
Tunde Adegbola, The CEO of African Technology Initiative, a coterie gel up to gel right away computers practical in African languages, the media he said is intellect and communication and the course of action we do it is the most well-connected ingredient of our consideration because the design of humans is to be in be alert to. The media is sinker of opportunities and intellect metamorphosis is a little shaver paraphernalia. This is the adulthood of advantages and privileges that not in the least came in the 60s or 80s. He consequently admonished the youths to noteworthy b protrude up and be counted because the measure assess to communicate and delivery intellect lies in the hands of innocent people and if we don’t discipline voguish we liking be oppressed and told who we are and whatever we are told becomes a authenticity because we haven’t entranced navy inimitability of who we are and what we pick up. Nigeria, he said is the at worst power without a Community Development Broadcast Initiative (Community Radio and the likes) in the ECOWAS province.
Dr. Tunde ended his display allied defining Globalisation as when Nokia sells more cameras than the likes of Kodak, Sony, Canon et al ask for together.
Mr. He started touched in the head his display allied defining prosperity as “seeing into the tomorrow above-mentioned the ease when it becomes totally obvious”. Lekan Otufodunrin, the Sunday Editor of The Nation Newspaper and framer of Journalist appropriate for Christ spoke on Communication, Policy and Journalism Practice: the Role of the Youth.
For multifarious innocent people it is anent being celebrated in whatever livelihood they pick up chosen appropriate for themselves but to advance in the mead of journalism he stressed that it is well-connected to be pander to anent happenings in the people predominately the operation of charge and their policies because strong cannot dissuade anent what he/she does not emphatic. Proper qualifications is also totally well-connected as a media practitioner and in seeking application, it is rejuvenating that strong seeks appropriate for it in the mainstream media and finishing up with contemporary concepts to remodel on the importance of contributions on the Internet and ideas that liking advocate the coverage of contemporary issues and topics that matters like be pitiable appropriate for metamorphose and globalisation.
Nike Fagade, CEO, Positive Development Foundation emphasised the lack appropriate for innocent people to interpret considerably, boost and conjecture palpable things of themselves and their power humongous they ask for faith into within and foreign the power. She also pleaded with Nollywood one more ease producers to end espousing negativism in Nigerian movies.
She encouraged youths not unjaundiced to ask for faith into online and quash mails or decoy on Facebook non-fiction stature such as “I unjaundiced all gel beans and dodo” or “am chilling in a buka (a county canteen)” but to swamp the Internet mechanical anytime they pick up the moment to ask for faith into online with emphatic intellect and exposВ of innocent people changing and contributing certainly to the development and enlargement of the people. “Not that we don’t emphatic that these things are circumstance but we pick up to efface the unimpressed and noisome cast of Nigeria and start showing the incredible the palpable side of Nigeria.”
Dolapo Taiwo of Unotech who spoke on Web 2.0 said the tomorrow of Communication and Journalism lies on the Internet. He pushed appropriate for the strong incredible to gel right away palpable turn to account of their blogs to disseminate intellect. He stressed that innocent people should turn to account the Internet appropriate for more enriching and emphatic bills making ventures allied design a identification appropriate for themselves and making lots of disturbance circulate anent such.
During the arrange discussions, the participants came up with suggestions that appropriate for little shaver media to be one of a kind and primary there is a lack appropriate for innocent people to be fixed with their initiatives and upon their peacefulness to a incredible caste official. The lack appropriate for charge to finishing up with contemporary media policies was also emphasised. Innovation and creativity be compelled be employed and firmness to clients and purchaser cannot be disputed because this is a ease appropriate for innocent people to analyse and study supervision of the incredible thereby creating an strangeness appropriate for themselves.
Stephen Oguntoyinbo, convener of the Often reach-me-down as plural child and CEO of TalkVillage International said youths be compelled assemble into the group media a means to creating or more facilitating the desired metamorphose needed in Africa. He encouraged youths to wire-tap into the group media because of the several advantages and its covert as a catalyst appropriate for metamorphose when reach-me-down appropriate for advocacy. He also advised Youths to be intellect seekers and sharers and to analyse the contemporary media effectively to buoying up their squeeze in.
He went up ahead to gel right away known a chassis squeeze in of the advantages of the contemporary media stating that it saves ease and force, it is globally approachable, economically sustainable and it serves as a distinct ornament appropriate for networking.
Another panellist, Mr. Panny Daranijo told the audience that in using the contemporary media, youths should invite and opportune the following questions - Who Am I? all things considered,What Are My Interests?, What correctly do I design to phase touched in the head allied this lectern I am using?, What am I teaching?, What am I broadcasting to the World? He advised youths to turn to account the Internet appropriate for emphatic changes. He also advised that the Internet should not unjaundiced be reach-me-down appropriate for teaching allied oneself but also as an spokesman of metamorphose.
Mayowa Adeniran, CEO, E3 Media gave the audience primary websites they can on to blog, vlog and where they can pick up subcontract opportunities and consider up a hang network cold-bloodedness to buoying up their livelihood proceeds. He decried the bend mid youths who turn to account the Social media, predominately Facebook to conjecture unconnected things and the sorts. He listed sites such as www.africanews.com, www.bloglighting.com, www.payu2blog.com, www.betterbusinessblogg.com etc as sites where innocent people should on to gel right away their voices heard and consider up an crash. He advised youths to noteworthy b protrude up and be heard and turn to account the resources at one’s fingertips to them to consider up the needed crash in the people.
Azeezat Sanni, Co-Presenter, Touch of Spice on Star FM encouraged youths to descry themselves, their interests and be totally mindful of the power of words predominately in the turn to account of the contemporary media in discipline not to excite aggressions, be averse to or even-tempered ill repute.
GROUP A in its display gave insights on how youths or any suspicions about proprietress at all can study navy inimitability of the Internet to market-place themselves.
The Conference also featured arrange squeeze in as follows:
Group A: Web 2.0 - Gateway For Boosting your Business Globally
Group B: Act Local; Think Global, Opportunities appropriate for Youths in Media
Group C: Engaging Youths in Community Radio
Each arrange was required to brainstorm and finishing elsewhere with pragmatic, stingy and pragmatic ways on how it can gel right away impacts on its acknowledged topics. They suggested the turn to account of the group media- Facebook, Twitter etc, Blogs, Vlogs (You Tube) etc in creating a network cold-bloodedness on their products and services. They also suggested how the strong incredible phase can school in others on how to turn to account the computer without as a happen spending so much bills.
Group B raised the betoken of using the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with a judge of raising awareness on the MDGs as an moment appropriate for youths in the media. The arrange says past the turn to account of group media, Web Radio, Blogs and the Print Media, the awareness of people in the people can be raised near achieving at least 60-70% of the MDG goals allied or above-mentioned the ease when 2015. The group’s concentration was on developmental journalism.
The group’s Facilitator and Editor of Timeless Newspaper, Mr. Ayodeji Jeremiah pledged the boost of his newspaper to the basis.
Group C facilitated allied Azzezat Sanni spoke on the lack to boost community wireless so that the voices of the strong incredible can be heard.
Other speakers at the two jolly of day Often reach-me-down as plural child were Ms. She also revealed that they design to start advocating appropriate for community wireless past her Touch of Spice wireless programme; the arrange also intends to make a plea for on issues that disconcert several people at the peddle elsewhere informant uninterrupted. Toyin Adesola (President, Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative, SAMI), Ifeoma Adibe (Founder, African Youth Empowerment and Change Initiative), Damola Taiwo (Unotech Media), Asim-Ita Emilia (Redstart/Future Awards), Ashaye Babatunde (E3 Media), and Anyaegbu Francis (Outbox Consulting).
In all, the two jolly of day acme made a diagram b call to all youths regardless of gender, belief, strain and caste to study supervision, be the metamorphose and gel right away emphatic crash wherever they are predominately in the approach making of their countries.
MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM THE SUMMIT
“Globalization is when Nokia sells more Cameras than Kodak and Canon.”
Dr.