The Daily IIJ

On October 19, U.S.-based Nigerian blogger and journalist Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reportswas arrested by the Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) upon his arrival at Abuja airport. It was some days before the SSS announced that Elendu had been charged, first with money laundering and then sedition.
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I assume you have heard about the court case in VN against two reporters. If not, please read the articles published by the news agency AFP or the International Herald Tribune.
Relating to this, I am writing to ask for your opinion: You quote the authorized sources in your writing, but later it turns out that [...]

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News and greetings from nature as personal and journalistic instincts takes the man from Nigeria to a special place on the Alps.

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One of the many challenges in journalism is to get the correct and reliable details of the story one is covering. Journalists are sometimes scared to cover certain topics which according to them are complicated. But to Susanne Koelbl, getting to do a story you were always afraid of might at the end of the [...]

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First and foremost, we give kudos to inwent-iij for this great opportunity to experience this German press conference which we may refer to as a ‘press conference with a difference’. Really, we have had an experience of the German media industry so far and we now have an insight on how the media works here.

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The world celebrated the 90th birthday of the iconic former South African leader Nelson Mandela, and Germany is expecting to receive the American presidential candidate Barack Obama who is expected to give a speech on German soil. Our visit to the Bundespressekonferenz could not have come at a better time when the eyes of the [...]

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After receiving so much tutorial notes, exercises and practical tips of covering or unearthing ’complex’ stories the participants of this year’s Summer Academy have a week in Berlin, visiting different media organizations to learn and ask questions on how they operate. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was our first stop. RSF is a media rights organization [...]

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The lecture by DER SPIEGEL’s war and conflict reporter, Susanne Koelbl gave testimony to the interest government spy agencies have in obtaining vital information that journalists hold from their sources. The BND, German’s foreign intelligence service intercepted Koelbl’s e-mail communication ’secretly’.

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Studies and history have shown that the emergence of any new medium does not eliminate the traditional media. The radio has not abrogated the newspaper and television has not abrogated the radio. But it is also certain that the traditional media decrease much of their audience and advertisers and change the patterns of use in [...]

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Having been born in a country that has been plagued by violence for the past more than three decades and reporting about the conflicts in Afghanistan for the past at least six years following the US-led invasion that toppled the Taliban regime, I once again encountered the fact that the intensity of the bad news [...]

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