{"id":8421,"date":"2017-01-19T14:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8421"},"modified":"2017-04-19T23:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T22:25:28","slug":"ekoriko-moffat-thomson","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekoriko-moffat-thomson\/","title":{"rendered":"EKORIKO, Moffat Thomson"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HND, MA, journalist, publisher, bom July 18 1967, Ikot Etim, Ukanafun LGA, Akwa Ibom State; married Ngozi, (deceased); has four children; Education: The Polytechnic, Ibadan; Fed eral Polytechnic, Oko; University of Leeds, UK; Wolfson College, University of Cam bridge, UK; Career: Appointed Chief re porter, Nigerian Tide, Port Harcourt, 1985- 93; Assistant Editor, Sunray, Port Harcourt, 1993; Energy correspondent, Newswatch, Lagos, 1993-96;Correspondent,Times, Lon don, 1996-97; Journalist, Financial Times, London, 1998-99; Regional Editor, Africa Today, London, 1996-97; Contributor, The Observer, 1997- date; Publisher, NewsAfrica magazine, London, 1999 &#8211; date; fellow, 21st Century Tmst, London, since 1998; member, Commonwealth Journalists Association, London; Awards: winner, Ideals of Service Award, Rotaract Club, Port Harcourt, 1990; Cecil King Memorial Prize for Journalist of the Year, 1995; and 10 other academic awards for excellence in tertiary schools; Foreign Awards: Commonwealth Press Fellowship, University of Cambridge, 1996; Publica tion: Reporters Diary, Mekor, 1998; Offi cial Address: Crown House, 62 Quicks Road, London, SW19 IEX, UK; Telephone: 44-208-540-7614 . Home: 27B, Elemdene Road, London, SE186TZ. Telephone: 44- 208-855-8168; 44-7771-998071 (mobile).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8421","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19487,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8421\/revisions\/19487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}