Awards & Fellowships

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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Adebulu is TheCable’s Journalist of the Year

Multiple award-winning journalist and Head, Fact-Check at TheCable, Taiwo Adebulu, has been named the publication’s Journalist of the Year 2021. On Friday, the newspaper’s editors announced him as the recipient of the annual award which recognises journalists within the ranks of TheCable “who have demonstrated industry, resilience and self-motivation as well as having produced impact

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The Punch, others win Diamond Awards for Media Excellence

The 30th edition of Diamond Awards for Media Excellence ( DAME) has been held with The Punch Newspaper and its staff winning the majority of the awards. Some other media houses including Premium Times, Guardian, TVC, Nigerian Tribune, New Telegraph won some categories. Among others, The Punch won the Newspaper of the Year and Editorial

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Otufodunrin, Koleoso, Oyesomi others bag UNILAG Mass Comm Alumni awards

The Executive Director of Media Career Development Network, Lekan Otufodunrin and other members of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Mass Communication Alumni Association (UMCAA) have been honoured for their excellent professional practice during the year and contributions to the development of the association. Otufodunrin, former Managing Editor and Sunday Editor of The Nation Newspaper was

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Winners emerge for Youth Digest Campus Journalism Award

Winners have emerged for the 2021 Campus Journalism Award organised by Youths Digest. A student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, AbdulWasiu Olookoba won the “Editor of the Year Award”. Olookoba beat Kareem Shamsudeen, from the University of Ibadan who was also shortlisted as a finalist. Fourteen other students from different tertiary institutions in Nigeria won

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Winners of 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative

Olukunle Akinrinade of The Nation Newspaper has emerged the winner of the 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting  Nigeria Investigative Reporter of the Year organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). Akinrinade also won the print category of the award along with other category winners during the award ceremony held on

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