- Casting Off The Veil To Say “Thank You!”
By Yinka Fabowale
Dear friends, a thousand thanks cannot suffice to express my appreciation and joy at your overwhelming show of love and outpouring of good wishes on the announced debut of my book, A REPORTER AND HIS BEAT!
Mo dupe pupo, Dalu, Nagode.
For those who have expressed interest in ‘buying’ copy(ies) and others who wished me luck in selling, well, I thank you too.
But, seriously, the book, I believe, is a gift and it would be trivializing the grace afforded me to write it as well as the benefits that come to the reader through it to regard it as no more than a piece of merchandise, a mere pawned article.
Let’s just say the cost exchange is to observe the Law of Balance which enjoins maintaining equilibrium in any giving and taking situation.
And you will find it’s worth even more than the price.
What the book promises and the fulfillment are both captured in this profile.
Take a look!
About The Author
This book provides a comprehensive insight of a reporter on the beat in Africa’s greatest country, Nigeria. Apart from surveying the trends and dynamics of journalism training and practice, media ecologies, ethos and traditions over time, it also reflects the sociology of the Nigerian media. In it, Yinka Fabowale, one of Nigeria’s most accomplished and award- winning journalists, vividly paints the picture of the diverse experiences and challenges the African journalist faces as he rises from the level of a rookie to the peak of his career.
From detailed accounts of his rigorous but very rewarding practical apprenticeship under some hardcore, no-nonsense professionals; the daily risks and thrills of being a journalist, the dangers of cooptation, compromise and corruption and lessons he learnt from both highly and lowly placed news sources and the events he covered spanning different eras of military and democratic regimes, the author points out the similarity and disparity between theory and practice and offers unique and realistic lessons to reporters, journalists and scholars.
It also mirrors developments and stagnation at diverse levels of analysis of the state of Nigerian journalism and the society – from the personal to the sectoral to the regional and national. It relives the realities regarding journalism education, professionalism, ethics, gate-keeping functions and watch-dog mandate of the press, in addition to policy misses by government as well as dysfunctional politics among other factors hindering national development, and thereby holds up a mirror for the nation’s Fourth Estate and society’s self-assessment and the need to refocus on ideals.
This makes the book an invaluable practical tool and resource material for policy makers, practitioners and students of communication and media studies, sociology, history, political science and any reader interested in the wide range of subjects it covers.
The book’s uniqueness lies in its excellent narrative and creative approach to teaching journalism. The chapters are short but focus intensely on the subject, just as the themes overlap and inter-relate. The content is rendered in simple, lucid and light-hearted language, laced with humour and wit that makes it reader –friendly.
Price: N10, 000 only (Paperback).
For preorder and enquiries, please contact: 07065152026
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