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Business Day appoints Phillip Isakpa Editor

03 February, 2008 01:00:00 Anonymous

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Te newspaper, owned by the media giant, Johnnic Communication, and Nigerian investors, also announced the departure of its pioneer editor-in-chief, Stanley Egbochukwu, who has left to take on a fresh challenge.
The appointment of Isakpa as editor also follows a major restructuring of the organisation’s editorial function, which sees erstwhile editor, Okwudili Ojukwu-Enendu stepping up to the newly created position of Managing Editor. In this position, Ojukwu-Enendu will have added responsibility for establishing new, as well as building old relationships with Business Day’s numerous external partners.
Chief executive, Frank Aigbogun said: “Okwudili has been moved up to take more responsibilities on the business side of the organisation. I believe that as we move into greater opportunities and challenges in the newspaper’s operations we have to leverage on the abundant in-house talent we have to continue to stay ahead of competition through increased levels of contacts with various stakeholders.”
New editor, Phillip Isakpa, joined Business Day in the United Kingdom in 2001 where he remained to serve the newspaper as its pioneer Europe Correspondent. He used the position to establish high level contacts with London-based economic, financial and political analysts for Business Day, which was always evident in the reports that he filed in from his bases in London and Manchester.
He worked at the newspaper’s Lagos office briefly in 2006 on a project that gave birth to a repackaged Money Section, as well as the introduction of the Personal Finance Magazine. He returned to the UK shortly after the project but was later appointed deputy editor in February 2007.
Upon his appointment he led the team that redesigned the paper to achieve its current format and has been working with different levels of editorial staff to achieve international quality for the paper.
Isakpa has worked in business journalism since 1996, which he began when he joined Vanguard Media Limited, where he reported on oil and gas, money and capital markets, as well as general business.
A British Council Scholar at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, he is an old boy of King’s College, Lagos. He graduated from the University of Nigeria and did graduate studies at the universities of Lagos and Manchester. He has also been a post-graduate researcher in journalism at the Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, where he researched media and democracy.
As editor of Business Day he would be responsible for further driving the newspaper to achieve higher standards with special focus on content and staff quality, as well as productivity.
“We have appointed Phillip to lead the editorial direction of the paper because we believe he will bring the kind of value needed to enrich the overall quality of the newspaper.
He brings wide-ranging experiences in journalism acquired from differenct cultures both locally and internationally, which would contribute to better and robust content,” Frank Aigbogun said of the appointment of the new editor.
“I am delighted at the opportunity to lead the editorial team of Business Day. I intend to pursue professionalism that will be based on a strong culture of intergrity and robust ethical business, economic and financial journalism. We will put together a paper that all levels of readership will find useful and meaningly to their lives during my time here as editor,” Isakpa said.
“In a world where executives at various levels, students and the general public are increasingly searching for business, economic and financial news and intelligence to help them in their understanding of developments in the economy, in different markets, this is an exciting time to be editing a newspaper at the very forefront of meeting these needs,” he added.

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