{"title":"From the exchequer to the editorial suite: Dilating the intra-professional mutations of Onyema Ugochukwu","authors":"Tunde Olusunle","doi":"10.4314/ejotmas.v8i1-2.6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to dilate the professional enterprise of Onyema Ugochukwu, one of the most respected practitioners and influencers of contemporary media practice and specialised journalism in Nigeria. It investigates his professional background as an economist and banker, through his detour into the media as progenitor of a new genre of technicalized reportage, and a seasoned manager in one of Nigeria’s most important newspapers in its time, the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc. It also scrutinises his later undertakings in political communication and public information management in his polyvalent media career over a period of five decades. Deploying the historic-method, this article probes the career course of Ugochukwu as a reporter, writer, editor, editorial director, political publicist and presidential communicator. This is to appropriately define his contributions to these aspects of the gamut of media practice, and to national growth. It successfully establishes that Ugochukwu has contributed immensely to the elevation and standardization of media practice and its repositioning as a profession which commands scholarship and intellectualism in the furtherance of national development. ","PeriodicalId":333241,"journal":{"name":"EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ejotmas.v8i1-2.6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study seeks to dilate the professional enterprise of Onyema Ugochukwu, one of the most respected practitioners and influencers of contemporary media practice and specialised journalism in Nigeria. It investigates his professional background as an economist and banker, through his detour into the media as progenitor of a new genre of technicalized reportage, and a seasoned manager in one of Nigeria’s most important newspapers in its time, the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc. It also scrutinises his later undertakings in political communication and public information management in his polyvalent media career over a period of five decades. Deploying the historic-method, this article probes the career course of Ugochukwu as a reporter, writer, editor, editorial director, political publicist and presidential communicator. This is to appropriately define his contributions to these aspects of the gamut of media practice, and to national growth. It successfully establishes that Ugochukwu has contributed immensely to the elevation and standardization of media practice and its repositioning as a profession which commands scholarship and intellectualism in the furtherance of national development.
本研究旨在扩大Onyema Ugochukwu的专业企业,Onyema Ugochukwu是尼日利亚当代媒体实践和专业新闻领域最受尊敬的从业者和影响者之一。这本书调查了他作为经济学家和银行家的职业背景,通过他作为一种新的技术化报告文学流派的鼻祖,以及作为尼日利亚当时最重要的报纸之一《尼日利亚每日时报》(Daily Times of Nigeria Plc)的资深经理,他进入了媒体。本书还详细考察了他在长达50年的多元媒体生涯中所从事的政治传播和公共信息管理工作。本文运用历史学的方法,考察了乌戈楚武作为记者、作家、编辑、编辑部主任、政治宣传员和总统传播者的职业历程。这是为了恰当地界定他对媒体实践的这些方面以及对国家发展的贡献。它成功地确立了Ugochukwu对媒体实践的提升和标准化以及将其重新定位为一种在促进国家发展方面需要学术和理智的职业做出了巨大贡献。