Enoch Oyedibu
Verified
(He/Him)
As seen in:
PIJAlance Magazine,
EIN News,
TheCable,
BusinessDay Nigeria,
The International Center for Investigative Reporting (ICIR),
Daily Nigerian,
SolaceBase,
African Angle
Covers:
Crime, Government Procurement, Corruption, Climate, Community
Doesn't Cover:
Sports
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Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Reporter
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No
How is social media changing news?
Quite exasperating and still Interesting. Social media has changed news in the sense that audience usually have a hard time distinguishing from fake and real news. But with the social media, freelance Journalism, multimedia and online Journalism became a career-saving for journalists not employed and for also the employed but necessarily censored by the in-house styles, thereby leaving them to injure their core practices
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
I prefer not to say.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
It means the world; as in, to be the voice to the voiceless and the speech to the speechless.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Digital technology provisions; pen and book.
What's your favorite social network?
Facebook
Who do you wish followed you?
Sane People
Why did you become a journalist?
It is what I am passionate about
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I was an Editor-In-Chief
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Investigative stories, and social irregularities
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Justice in all
When's the best time to pitch you?
Late night
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Sex-for-grade. Still working on the story, anyway
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
None
What's your favorite drink?
I don't drink
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Prefer not to say
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Punch, BBC, Reuters, West Africa Weekly, FIJ
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
None
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