The Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals(AFYMP) has announced its second-year funded media fellowships in different categories for next-generation/early-career journalists.
The funded media fellowships which include in-person two days of intensive workshops, and about six mentorship sessions for successful applicants will run across geo-political zones in Nigeria.
According to a release by the AFYMP’s Executive Director, Yinka Olaito, this year’s media fellowship has a uniqueness because the mentorship will spread for about six months”.
“As usual, there are four categories: media entrepreneurship, thought leadership and Niche building, Campus journalism: ethics, safety, fact-checking and data-driven journalism, Women in Journalism, New talents Development, Disability and inclusion and Increasing the voices of the marginalized in the media” Yinka Olaito explained.
Interested participants can only apply for only one of the categories while for balance and inclusion, a sizable number of the successful fellows will be reserved for women and persons with disability.
The Women in Journalism and the new talent development cohort is exclusively for next-generation and early-career media women across the nation, especially those who are still pursuing their undergraduate studies, though there may be opportunities for those who recently graduated in the past year.
After the selection, each cohort fellowship will begin with an in-person intensive 2 days workshop for each of the cohort fellows.
The cost of these in-person workshops will be paid for by AFYMP. The in-workshops (for all four programmes) will be held twice in four locations: Lagos, Ibadan, Owerri, and Port Harcourt. Full transport fare may be covered by the fellowship or be highly subsidised by AFYMP.
This is the second edition of this funded fellowship organized by AFYMP.
In 2022, the first edition saw the participation of about 86 fellows across the countries who were selected after a rigorous screening. AFYMP is proud to say the majority of the fellows in the first edition of the project had distinguished themselves through outstanding undercover, investigative, solution journalism, gender and inclusion stories they had published, got recognized and several awards for in both local and international platforms
Eligibility:
-Be a next-generation/early-career journalist. Be pursuing undergraduate studies or just recently graduated
-Be focused and ambitious and willing to excel in the Journalism/media industry
– Being an early career, next generation, campus Journalist with a track record of at least one or more published articles may be an advantage but not compulsory,
-Must be available for an in-person 2 days’ workshop
-Be available for virtual mentorships
– While everyone can also apply for the disability and inclusion cohort, the selection committee will give preference to next-generation/early career journalists who is a PWD or noted advocates of inclusion with previously published articles around this.
-Be willing to kick the ground running with knowledge gained through the publication of two underreported stories from your community
This project is part of the Collaborative Media Engagement, Development, Inclusivity and Accountability project led by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism supported by funding from the MacArthur Foundation.
Interested applicants can apply here
Next-generation, early-career journalists across Africa can also apply. We now have a system that accommodates them.
For in-person African invasion, this project is open to sponsorship across Africa with the right support and funding from interested organizations
