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After five attempts, Soyombo wins Kurk Schork Awards

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After five attempts and three appearances on the shortlist of the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism, multiple award-winning investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo has emerged the 2020 winner of the Local Reporter category of the competition. In a press statement on Thursday by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Fisayo won for his undercover investigation on Nigeria’s criminal […]

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Vacancy for 25 excellent young writers

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A leading Nigerian newspaper invites applications from 25 excellent writers for beat reporting, feature writing, investigative stories and more. Ideal candidates are preferably young with excellent writing skills. Interested candidates should have excellent writing skills and must be passionate about journalism irrespective of the degree and must be ready for new challenges. Successful candidates will

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BusinessDay Editor resigns, alleges corporate malpractices, bad management

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Editor of BusinessDay, Patrick Atuanya has resigned his appointment alleging corporate malpractice and bad management of the company. Atuanya who was appointed editor of the paper in January 2019 announced his sudden exit in a message he shared with staff in a WhatsApp group titled Parting Shot. Although Atuanya could not be immediately reached, the

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Training for investigative health reporters

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The International Press Centre (IPC) is set to commence a six-month Media-in-Health-Care-Accountability Project to facilitate the emergence of a corps of next-generation investigative health reporters in December. The project, supported by the US Consulate-General, Lagos seeks to enhance the capacity of the media and younger generation journalists to serve as effective catalysts of fundamental health care

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Media Programmes THISWEEK November 30 – December 5, 2020

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The media programmes scheduled for this week include fellowship deadline, workshop, Award, Lecture among others between Monday, November 30-Saturday, December 5, 2020. The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details Monday, November 30, 2020 Deadline for Investigative Fellowships To Tackle Religious Intolerance Applications for an intensive, free six-week online course that will

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CNN’s Aisha Salaudeen wins The Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism

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Aisha Salaudeen Journalist and multi-platform producer with CNN International has emerged the winner of The Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism for 2020. She was announced as the winner of the award along with 19 others for other categories on Saturday, 28 November at the first-ever TV and digital edition of the competition. The Journalism

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Edo to reposition Nigerian Observer, acquires new press

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  The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has reiterated his administration’s commitment to repositioning the state-owned newspaper, the Nigerian Observer to meet national and international standards. Obaseki disclosed this on Thursday after inspecting the newly acquired printing press machine at the newspaper’s head office in Benin City. According to the governor, “You can see

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