Tinubu, 2027 and the Price of Losing Trusted Journalism.
She was asking a question that every democracy must now answer.
The British prime minister had promised that “trusted local journalism remains at the heart of communities.” […] In London last week, Sarah Lester, editor of the Manchester Evening News, stood before Parliament to open this year’s Journalism Matters campaign.
How far, she asked, is power willing to go to ensure that journalism does not merely survive, but thrives?
It was a British speech, delivered to a British audience, about a British crisis. Yet in the Nigerian media industry, it landed with an uncomfortable familiarity. For Nigeria is facing the same question, only more urgently, and with far higher stakes. Another general election is approaching.
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