Winners from South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda and Senegal have emerged in the 2021 African Fact-Checking Awards, held in a virtual ceremony on Tuesday 12 October 2021 as part of this year’s African Investigative Journalism Conference. According to a statement by the organisers, Jean le Roux from the Digital Forensic Research Lab’s team in Cape Town, South Africa, […]
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The former Director and Global Head of Communications and Events Management at Afreximbank, Obi Emekekwue is billed to deliver the 2nd Jacksonites Professional Development Series [JPDS] seminar. Emekekwue’s lecture titled: “Crisis Survival in Today’s Viral World: The Communications Conundrum,” will examine effective communication as a way of navigating and managing the negative impact crisis
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has opened its application portal for interested journalists to apply for the sixteenth edition of its annual Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. According to a press statement by the Executive Director/ CEO of the organisation, Mrs Motunrayo Alaka, Journalists from the print, online, photo, cartoon, television
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New editorial appointments and redeployment, involving some top staff have been made at The Punch Newspaper. An internal memo by the Editor, The Punch, Ademola Oni on October 13 said the appointments which take immediate effect were approved by the Managing Director/ Editor-In-Chief, Mr Ademola Osinubi. Details of the appointments are as follows: Olalekan Adetayo,
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Mohammed Adamu, a 500-level law student, and Toheeb Abdulrafiu, a former student of Economics, from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, were among the four winners in the September Reading Challenge organized by Students for Liberty, Africa. The reading challenge is a monthly book review for the libertarians who are also members of the organization across the
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Campus journalists have been sensitized to the need to pay attention to climate change and health issues in their reporting. They were offered insights on the two important issues at a recent webinar organized by the National Union of Campus Journalists tagged “NUCJ Capacity Building: Climate and Health Reporting Webinar”. The facilitators were Akintude Babatunde
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Freelance Investigative and Development Journalist, Kelechukwu Iruoma has won many awards, grants and fellowships for his reports on many local and international platforms. In this online interview with Lekan Otufodunrin, he offers deep insights on his winning streak and what other interested journalists can do to maximise various opportunities. Congratulations on the Fellowship on
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 has been jointly awarded to two journalists, Founder of Rappler in Philipines, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov, Editor-in-chief and founder of Novaya Gazeta. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said in an announcement on October 8 that Maria and Muratov won the award for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression
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Journalist and media career development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin recalls the media exploits of the late founding executive director of Journalists Against AIDS, Omololu Falobi who died 15 years ago. How time flies indeed. 15 years on October 5 when the founding Executive Director of Journalists Against (JAAIDS) Omololu Falobi, journalist per excellence and media visionary
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It is known that students tend to engage in extracurricular activities. Perhaps they have rebuked the ideology of “books only” or they discover that they have their unique potentials. Either way, students are now fond of doing and learning things not taught in class. And I hold it as education too. It is an education
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