Timbuktu Media has successfully launched its first print edition of the newest Nigerian newspaper called NEXT, published on January 4 2009, which follows the launch of its online edition in December.

The newspaper’s publisher Dele Olojede, a Nigerian Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former foreign editor for Newsday,  described its aim as “to provide news and informed opinion fairly and accurately to the Nigerian public in any land.” Olojede was enthusiastic about its online reach also, saying that the paper would be delivered “via the Web, on your mobile devices, to your desktop, on YouTube and Facebook - anywhere we can find you.” Hmm, sounds interesting!

You can watch the video below from the launch event live in Lagos.

The printed papers are to be “distributed in multiple cities simultaneously in Nigeria, the UK, and in the United States.” He also plans to recruit young journalistic talent to produce a “youthful, inspiring and service-oriented” newspaper.

The online edition uses resources from the Garcia Media team to help with development of layout and content, as well as newsroom training. According to Garcia Media, “the daily edition will be in a compact format, but Sunday is big: a broadsheet, with several sections that include Arts & Culture, Sports, Metro, Book Review and Elan magazine.”