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 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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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 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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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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The Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has named Justina Asishana as its Journalist of the Year following her report on the security situation in the Shiroro local government area of Niger state in Nigeria She was announced as the winner after the 5th Africa Conference on Development Journalism held virtually on Tuesday 7th December 2021. The
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Fourteen finalists, made up of five female reporters and nine male, have been selected for the 16th edition of the annual Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. The event is scheduled to hold on Thursday, 9 December 2021 at NECA House, Lagos, from 4 pm to 6 pm. The finalists were selected by the board
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The organisers of the annual Campus Journalism Awards (CJA), Youths Digest, have shortlisted the names of the successful finalists for this year’s edition. According to the organisers, a total of 304 entries were submitted from over 50 universities nationwide, with the finalists selected from fifteen Nigerian educational institutions across 15 prize categories. The “Edirin Jerry-Wesley
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A freelancer, Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi has been named a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting ‘ NEW Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund’ announced on November 04, 2021. Adeyemi is formerly an Associate Researcher – Conflicts & Terrorism and Research Analyst at Premium Times Center for Investigative Journalism [PTCIJ], Abuja – www.ptcij.org. ‘Vendors Relations
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Eight journalists have been announced as winners of the 2021 West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The winners named at a virtual ceremony held on November 10 received up to USD 1,250 each and a plaque of recognition. The winners and their entries are listed below: The