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We Tried Collaborative Analysis for Our Community Call and It Worked. Here’s What We Learned

By Akinyemi Muhammed The nature of our community calls at NAMIP is to help participants learn from the successes and failures of other participants across different areas of specialization, and to exchange notes where necessary. Sometimes, the teaching comes from...

How to Make a Podcast That Makes Money

By Muhammed Akinyemi NAMIP held its first training Suite of the year on Practical Media Business Tools. While Revenue Strategies Workshop was held, Tevin Sudi and Lucas Ngao from AQStudio also provided NAMIP participants with practical tools on the business of...

Newsroom Startup 101: How to Build Profitable Newsrooms

Fundamentals of Building Profitable Newsrooms in Nigeria Between March 1 and 2, 2024, participants organizations within NAMIP participated in a workshop on the business of setting up a newsroom. Led by Anita Eboigbe, an experienced journalist and media manager,...

Revenue Generation Strategies Through Sponsored Articles for Media Organizations

By Muhammed Dalhatu NAMIP held its first community event of the year on Thursday February 13, 2024, with Muyiwa Mátùlúkò, CEO of TechPoint Africa leading the session. TechPoint Africa is a digital media company that focuses on showcasing the best innovations from...

Women from African Special Programs Share Strategies for Success

By Brigitte Read One of the key benefits of the MDIF Special Programs like NAMIP and SAMIP is being part of a cohort of young media entrepreneurs who generously share their perspectives, challenges, successes and failures. Cultivating a cooperative mindset means good...

Sales Strategies For Media Organisations

By Muhammad Dalhatu What is a Sales Strategy and what are the fundamentals of sales? This was the subject of a two-day conversation and NAMIP sales workshop facilitated by Carl Davis, Managing Director of MemeBurn this month. The workshop focused on equipping...

Bridging the Information Gap using Whatsapp

By Vivian Ojomu How relevant can WhatsApp be to media organisations? You might think increased reach, better engagement but is it possible to generate revenue directly from WhatsApp as media? Well, according to Mustapha Ahmed of Lavun Community Radio, it is! He shared...

Intro to Google AdSense for Media Organizations

By Muhammad Dalhatu The NAMIP monthly Community Call Series for July was facilitated by NAMIP’s Program Assistant, Muhammad Dalhatu. Muhammad led a discussion introducing Google AdSense as we gained greater insight on how to monetize news websites through Google...

Let’s Talk About Search Engine Optimization

By Muhammad Dalhatu So, what is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? According to the Internet of things, it is the next best thing to make you trend online. Makes you wonder what the first best thing is right? Anyway, SEO is essentially the mix of strategies used to...

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NAMIP Kicks Off 2024 with Revenue Strategies Workshop

The Nigeria Media Innovation Program (NAMIP) convened a strategy workshop between January 29th and 31st, 2024, at the Johnwood Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria. The event brought together 56 participants from 25 cohort organizations, including media experts, NAMIP’s Advisory...

Pan-African Media Organizations Gather in Kenya for Innovation and Collaboration

The Africa Media Festival 2024, organized by Baraza Media Lab at the National Museums of Kenya, brought together media professionals between February 21 and 22 from across the continent. The festival aimed to celebrate the convergence of media and journalism with art...

Nine Professionals Join NAMIP’s Media Product Fellowship

The Nigeria Media Innovation Program (NAMIP) is excited to announce the first cohort of its Media Product Fellowship. The nine fellows were selected from over 120 applications after careful consideration of their interest in media business development, past work, and...

NAMIP Hosts Cohort at Workshop on Exploring Revenue Strategies for Media

The Nigeria Media Innovation Program held an in-person 2-day training workshop in Abuja on June 5th & 6th 2023, bringing together 35 representatives of 24 participating independent media organizations to learn how they can transition and diversify their revenue...

10 NEW ORGANISATIONS JOIN NAMIP’S INNOVATIVE COHORT

The Nigeria Media Innovation Program (NAMIP) is thrilled to announce the addition of 10 more media organizations to its innovative business capacity-building coaching initiative. They were selected from over 150 applications after careful consideration by an Advisory...

Applications Open for NAMIP’s Media Product Fellowship

The Nigeria Media Innovation Program, an MDIF initiative set up to support the editorial independence of media organisations by strengthening their financial sustainability, is announcing a Media Product Fellowship. This four-month-long programme is designed to build...

Vacancy: Program Assistant

Reporting to: Program Manager The Nigeria Media Innovation Program (NAMIP) is a multi-year media initiative that seeks to accelerate digital media innovation and sustainability among independent media outlets in Nigeria. NAMIP is seeking to appoint a full-time...

NAMIP brings media cohort together to start building sustainability

NAMIP held its first in-person event in Abuja on 19-20 January, bringing together 28 representatives of 14 participating independent media to share ideas around sustainability, identify areas of potential collaboration and build relationships. NAMIP is supported by...

Meet the organisations selected to participate in Nigeria Media Innovation Program

(NAMIP) is thrilled to announce the first participants in the program. They were selected from over 200 applications after careful consideration by an Advisory Committee comprising leading professionals in journalism, business, academia and innovative enterprise. The...

Nigeria Media Innovation Program (NAMIP) Advisory Committee appointed

Following the call for program applications and the appointment of a Nigerian team to lead MDIF’s Nigeria Media Innovation Program (NAMIP), MDIF’s Board has appointed a NAMIP Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee comprises leading professionals in journalism,...