Nigeria, Oct. 9 -- A few weeks ago, I attended a major media sustainability conference organised by the Media Development Investment Fund and the Daily Trust Foundation. While the event focused on the future of journalism in Nigeria, it also served as the close-out event for NAMIP's three-year work in the country.

There are so many good things one could say about NAMIP and its impact on Nigeria's media sector. But what struck me most was a logo sitting quietly in the corner of all the media materials at the event - the MacArthur Foundation's logo.

If you scan through all the major journalism innovations and interventions in Nigeria over the last 10 years, that logo is always there. And that is exactly what this article is about: nine ye...