Awards & Fellowships

Call for nomination: Courage in Journalism Awards for women

The International Women’s Media Foundation is accepting third-party nominations (no self nomination) for the 2022 Courage in Journalism Awards. The award seeks to recognize fierce women journalist who are detained, jailed or imprisoned. It honors brave women journalists – including photojournalists – working in any country across the world. Candidates for the Courage in Journalism […]

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Scholarship opportunity in the Netherlands for mid-career journalists

The Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) is accepting applications from midcareer journalists from developing countries. Successful applicants will undergo a short journalism courses at the Radio Netherland Training Centre (RNTC) and other institutions in the Netherlands. The OKP is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and run by the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation

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Call for application: Google News Initiative student fellowship

The Google News Initiative, in partnership with the European Journalism Centre, is seeking application from journalism students and recent graduates. 30 candidates will be selected for the paid summer fellowship program. Fellows will work in a newsroom in Europe between June and September while having access to mentorship, training and networking opportunities. Candidates must be

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30 journalists to benefit from Oxford Fellowship Programme

No fewer than 30 journalists around the world will benefit from fully funded fellowship programme to acquire more knowledge in journalism practice. The programme is designed to enable journalists broaden their understanding on the current news ecosystem and wider media industry. Applications are open with minimum of five years journalistic experience or its equivalent level

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Call for ICFJ journalism award nomination

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is seeking nominations for the 2022 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Awards. Candidates can be reporters, editors, technologists, media managers or citizen journalists. Candidates who meet the Awards criteria may nominate themselves. The winners will be honored on Nov. 10 at ICFJ’s 2022 Tribute to Journalists. All nominations are to

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Winners named for #PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Award

Winners have emerged for the #PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Award 2021/2022 organized by the Nigeria Health Watch. Ezedimbu Karen Ogbom of  Africa Independent Television (AIT), won the Television category with an entry titled “Nigeria’s Cholera Nightmare.” For the print/online category, Abdulqudus Ogundapo of The Nation Newspaper won with his report “How poor funding, low technology, hinders local

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Call for 2022 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award

The International Center for Journalists, ICFJ, has announced the commencement of application for nominees in the forthcoming 2022 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award. This was disclosed in a statement issued by Maggie Farley, Director, ICFJ Knight Fellowships. “We are now seeking nominees whose pioneering coverage or media innovations have made an impact on the lives

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Tribune reporter, 15 others named Solutions Journalism LEDE’s fellows

As a senior reporter with the Nigerian Tribune, Ifedayo Ogunyemi and fifteen other top journalists and media professionals globally have been named as the LEDE Fellows — journalism entrepreneurs spreading solutions journalism to their communities and beyond by the Solutions Journalism Network. Ogunyemi, who is also a fact-checker, solutions reporter and media coach covers politics,

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TheCable’s “Most improved Journalists” 2021

The management of TheCable has named three young journalists in the company as the “most improved” journalists for 2021.   The award is a new category added to the annual Journalist of the Year to recognise journalists in the newspaper “who have demonstrated industry, resilience and self-motivation as well as having produced impact stories during

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