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NIGERIA`S MEDIA WATCHDOG
Diamond Publications Limited is a dynamic publishing company that has distinguished itself in magazine and book publishing since its incorporation in 1989. Its main products are focused on the Nigerian media.
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Working more for less?
 In words and in actions, The Guardian is truly living up to its self styled name- the flagship of the media in Nigeria. Aside its rigorous analyses and depth of investigation, which has made the paper's products the toast of advertisers and readers, crisis in the paper over better working conditions had always been a precursor for better working conditions in the industry. Workers' agitation in the paper has sprung up glamour for better pay in other newspaper houses.
The latest of such crisis, which saw the paper off the newsstands in the latter part of last year, following disagreements between the paper's management and workers, has seen other publications planning to review the welfare conditions of their workers.
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 Nurturing local content
The objectives of local content regulation in the broadcast industry include ensuring that a programme should contain themes, ideas and issues that the local audience can easily and fully identify with. It should be a programme that treats issues that are relevant to the targeted community. It should also be produced by local producers, crew and actors or talents; in other words, the motivation and the ideas for the production should be local in origin. Finally, local content should try as much as possible to accommodate the diversities of the target nation...| Read more
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KUDOS & KNOCKS
 Kudos to the NTA Network News for its comprehensive report on the New Year raid by suspected militants in Port Harcourt. The station was the only TV station that gave a detailed report on the violence and showed images of the areas affected by the raid.
While the story was the major story in almost all the stations, none provided adequate information, as they relied on official pronouncements.
The NTA went beyond this by interviewing eye witnesses and speaking with the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, who later showed the station the bodies of suspected militants killed in the violence....| Read more
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'NUC on Ph.D'
The NUC in its apparent quest for a more wholesome university system is at it again. The body has issued a directive to the effect that, from next year, the basic qualification for a teacher in the Nigerian university system will be the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Existing realities clearly indicate that the facilities are so over stretched in our universities that the number of Ph.D degrees which they produce is very minimal. Even then, there is nothing to suggest that the few Ph.D holders that are being produced will make university teaching a first choice career.
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