Tunde Akanni

Background

About Tunde Akanni

Professor Tunde Akanni is an accomplished journalist, media scholar and development expert with experiential assets in diverse communication practices and scholarship. An alumnus of Ilorin, Columbia, Leicester and Ibadan Universities as well as the Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag, Netherlands, he has been a multiple award winning scholar including being a distinguished British Chevening Scholar and a Netherlands NUFFIC Fellowship awardee. Akanni's professional erudition has earned him coveted positions including being a director of Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, CJID, formerly Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, PTCIJ; International Advisory Board member of Dubawa, Nigeria's first indegenous international fact-checking organisation; visiting faculty member of Savannah Business School as well as being an editorial advisor for The Point newspaper Robustly published locally and internationally as an academic researcher and media analyst, he is currently a Professor of Journalism and Development Communications at the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies of the Lagos State University where he doubles as the pioneer Director of Digital Media Research Centre, DMRC. Akanni has served as a resource person for training, legacy and digital media tasks; stakeholder mapping as well as for other long and short term consultancies for local and international organizations including UNDP, DFID, Internews, OSI, NIPR, Friends of the Earth, Nigeria and so forth. Akanni is also available via: Twitter:@Akintunde Akanni Skype:hajiakanni Facebook:Tunde Akanni