Description:Premium Times Services Limited publishers of Premium Times is a Nigerian media organisation based in Abuja with a vision to help strenghten Nigerias democracy advance the socioeconomic wellbeing and the rights of the people promote and enrich their cultural practices and advocate for best practices good governance transparency and human rights in line with the values expected of a modern democratic state Proprietors of the organisation believe that of all the institutions of a modern democracy the media matter in large measure It can help forge new communities pursue political and social agenda in support of a better society and help build visions of hope and resistance Sadly the media can also lead in negative directions dividing people and truncating hope and vision In our country the media have played both roles at different times in our history Premium Times founded in mid 2011 believes that the time has come for Nigeria to embrace the challenge of progress and development in a substantial concrete sense We have brought to the table a huge commitment to offer our country the type of media that will advocate for the people and nudge our nation into the path of development and social reengineering We are of the view that in terms of its formalistic processes and its philosophy of content the new media that will help spur the challenge of educational revolution cultural rebirth and economic development in Nigeria must be reflective thoughtful analytic and empathetic without a sense of entitlement and insularity We have come to fill that lacuna and raise the bar of journalism in our country We will publish across all formats beginning with this online platform where we hope to appeal to the bulk of our young and middle class elites with a vision of the future and a believe in social change
Description:The Harvard Political Review is Americas preeminent student journal of politics policy and culture The HPR is written and published entirely by Harvard undergraduates and is housed at the Institute of Politics The HPR was founded in 1969 by a group of Harvard College undergraduates The founders envisioned a publication that allowed students to research write and edit incisive reportage and commentary in a thoughtful nonpartisan forum To this day the HPR does not take magazinewide editorial positions While individual articles have distinct viewpoints the magazine as a whole does not represent any ideology or party Over the past generation the HPR has incubated some of the best political minds in America Among the magazines alumni are Al Gore Jr former Vice President and Nobel Laureate EJ Dionne Jr Washington Post columnist Jonathan Alter former Newsweek Senior Editor and columnist and Jeffrey Sachs Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University In recent years HPR writers have won the National Press Club Award for Outstanding College Political Writing and matriculated to staff positions with Politico The New York Times The Washington Post Reuters Al Jazeera and elsewhere