Media career enhancing NGOs journalists should know

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For journalists seeking resources and programmes to enhance their career, below are some media Non-Governmental Organisations to link up with.

Media Career Development Network (MCDN) Nigeria

Office: 14 Fadare Street, (End of Kayode Street,) Besides Normal Children’s School, off Ijaye Road, Ogba Lagos

Telephone: +2348023000621, +2348050498530

Twitter: @mediacareerngr

International Press Centre (IPC)

The International Press Centre – lPC, Lagos Nigeria is a not-for-profit, non-governmental and independent media resource centre which organises activities aimed at strengthening the capacity and professionalism of the media and journalists.

Address:
House 11, Dideolu Court, Dideolu Estate,
2nd Gate Bus Stop, Ijaiye Road, Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria

Email:
admin@ipcng.org

Telephone:
(+234) 816.220.6470 (+234)803.426.2294

Website:
http://www.ipcng.org/en/

Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative journalism (WSCIJ)

About:
Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation with social justice programmes aimed at exposing corruption, regulatory failures and human rights abuses with the tool of investigative journalism.

Address :
18A, Abiodun Sobajo Street, off Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

Phone :
+234908-251-5179
Email :
wscij@wscij.org

Website:
http://wscij.org/

Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF)

About:
Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF), a not-for-profit organisation, uses the vehicle of journalism to advance transparency and accountability in government. It also seeks to build an active citizenry “to promote democracy and development”. The Foundation is a subscriber to “solutions journalism” – a school that believes in rigorous reporting of positive response to problems and challenges.
Address:
Lagos
5b Iyalla Street, Alausa, Ikeja
Lagos, NIGERIA.
Phone: +234 811 397 5332
Abuja
Suite 303, Zeto Court,
3 Osogbo Close Off Emeka Anyaoku Street,
Area 11 Garki, Abuja, NIGERIA.
Website: cablefoundation.org

Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism

About:
Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) is a media, non-governmental organization based in Nigeria. The Centre was incorporated by the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2014. PTCIJ is the NGO arm of Premium Times, founded in mid-2011. The founders believe that the time has come for Nigeria to embrace the challenge of progress and development in a substantial, concrete sense.
Address
Head Office
53, Mambolo Street, Zone 2,
Wuse, Abuja.

Phone
+234(0)9 291 7298
+234(0)706 368 5813

Email
info@ptcij.org

Website: https://ptcij.org/

Media Rights Agenda (MRA)

About:
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) was established in 1993 as an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization for the purpose of, among other things, promoting and protecting media freedom and freedom of expression in Nigeria.
MRA is registered in Nigeria and has Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Contact:

Media Rights Agenda
21 Budland Street,
Off Isheri Road,
Ojodu-Ikeja.
P.O. Box 52113, Ikoyi.
Lagos, Nigeria.
Tel: +234-1-7616803
E-mail: mra@mediarightsagenda.net
Web: http://www.mediarightsagenda.net/web
Facebook: Media Rights Agenda
Twitter: @MRA_Nigeria

Institute for Media and Society

3a Emina Crescent, Off Toyin Street,
Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa.

Telephone: +234 8033079828
Email: info@imesoimeso.org, imesoimeso@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.imesoimeso.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imesoimeso
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ImesoNigeria

Journalists For Christ (JFC)

About:
The Lord gave the word, great is the company of those that publish it. (Psalm 68:11)
Journalists for Christ International Outreach ( JFC International ) is a registered Non- Governmental Christian media organisation devoted to spreading the gospel among media professionals and using media skills to promote Christian activities in Nigeria.

Address:
Office House 11, Dideolu Estate, Ofba, Ijaye, Lagos.
P.O.BOX 15399, Ikeja, Lagos.Nigeria

Telephone:
08023000621

Email:
info@journalistsforchrist.org

Twitter:
JournalistsFC

Website:
http://journalistsforchrist.org/

International Centre For Investigative Reporting (ICIR)

About:
The International Center for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, is an independent, nonprofit news agency that seeks to promote transparency and accountability through robust and objective investigative reporting. The ICIR’s mission is to promote good governance and entrench democratic values by reporting, exposing, and combating corruption. The Center is envisioned to be a catalyst in encouraging and fostering a tradition of journalistic excellence through creative investigative reporting, online publishing, and training programs.

Website:
http://icirnigeria.org/

Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS)

About:
JAAIDS engages in research, community and media mobilization, policy advocacy, and response monitoring and training to address HIV/AIDS, TB and other related issues. JAAIDS is part of several national and international advocacy efforts to promote accountability and transparency in health financing as well as universal access, and presently serves as the secretariat for the African Civil Society Coalition on Universal Access.

Address:
14 Fadare Street
Ogba, Lagos
Nigeria

Website:
http://www.nigeria-aids.org

Phone numbers:
+234 1 773 1457 | +234 1 812 8565

Development Communication Network (DEVCOM)

About:
We are a media-development, capacity-building non-governmental organization coordinated by experienced development journalists.
The organization is a product of series of development projects on media (both print and broadcast – including video documentaries, drama for development and radio productions) health promotion, advocacy and capacity building in the Nigerian mass media and the civil society sector from 1995 to date.

Address:
26, Adebola Street,
Off Adeniran Ogunsanya,
Surulere- Lagos,
Nigeria.

Telephone:
+234-1-8196309, +234-803-3053713

Email:
info@devcomsnetwork.org

Website:
www.devcomsnetwork.org

Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)

About:
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting is an international network of organisations headquartered in London with coordinating offices in Washington, Dc, New York and The Hague, IWPR works in 22 countries worldwide. It is registered as a charity in the Uk, as an organisation with tax-exempt status under Section 50(c) (3) in the United States, as a charitable foundations in the Netherlands.

Website:
https://iwpr.net/

Impact Africa

About:
ImpactAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for data-driven storytelling.
We offer $500,000 in support for pioneering data journalism and innovative reporting that tackles development issues, such as public healthcare, in six African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

Address:
Located inside Codebridge – Code Dojo
Campground Rd
Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa

Email:
info@impactafrica.fund

Website:
http://impactafrica.fund/

ProjektHope

About:
Projekthope is a non profit organisation committed to ensuring that the Nigerian press come to terms with its evaluative role in defining and advancing progress in our society. We pursue our objective through interventions that support and defend media freedom and pluralism as well as develop the capacity of media practitioners through training, research and provision of resources to enable a more purposeful coverage culture, thereby contributing to normalising Nigeria’s many development priorities. The overriding consideration of our vision rests on the need to ensure that media practitioners become more conscious of the need to rely on utmost integrity in the search for and reporting of the truth; fairly, honestly and accurately as possible, consistent with the media’s role of serving the public with integrity while being guided by accepted principles and standards of the profession.

Contact:
697029-twitter-512@NigeriaHIVinfo

facebook_home_logo_580-100034106-largefacebook.com/HIVnewsng

telephone:
+234-807-8444-456, 808-1722-462

email:
logoinfo@nigeriahivinfo.com

Website:
http://nigeriahivinfo.com/

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