Awards & Fellowships

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Calls Application for Fellowship

The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program seeks entries from democracy activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and scholars from around the world. The program offers fellows the opportunity to spend five months in residence at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in Washington, D.C., to undertake independent research on democracy in a particular country or region. While […]

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Solution Journalism Africa

Profiles & Projects of Solutions Journalism Africa Fellows

The Solutions Journalism Network’s Africa Initiative on Monday named its inaugural set of 10 Fellows who will implement solutions journalism-focused projects across Kenya and Nigeria. Pictures, brief profile, and details of projects they will implement are below:   Abdulkareem MOJEED (@mojeed07) is an investigative journalist and researcher working with Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper. His project

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Ten Solution Journalism Africa Fellows named

The Solutions Journalism Network’s Africa Initiative has named its inaugural set of 10 Fellows who will implement solutions journalism-focused projects across Kenya and Nigeria. The Fellows who were unveiled on Monday by  Ruona Meyer,  Africa Initiative Manager of the Network comprises journalism lecturers, artists, as well as veteran and investigative reporters who will deliver their

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United States Media fellowship for Nigerian journalist

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in association with the World Press Institute is offering an exciting opportunity for an early- to mid-career Nigerian journalist with at least five years of professional experience to take up a media fellowship in the United States in March-May 2022.   The program is open to journalists

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journalists

‘Media organisations should have more women in leadership positions’

The 4th  edition of the Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP), organized by the Wole Soyinka Centre For Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ)  in Lagos on Monday with calls for more women in the leadership of media organisations in the country. Twenty-one female journalists from broadcast, print and digital media organizations are participating in the programme aimed at

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21 journalists selected for Female Reporters Leadership Programme

Twenty-one female journalists in the county have been selected for the fourth edition of the Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) organized by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) with the support of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). They include journalists from print, broadcast and digital media with three

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Danfodiyo Student wins Best Writer’s Campus Award

The News Editor of the News Digest Press and 300-level student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi, has won the Best Writer award on Nigeria Campuses in the 4th Edition of the Nigeria Campus Awards 2021. The Nigeria Campus Awards which recognises excellent students in various categories received over 1,000 nominations including Best Artiste

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August 1 deadline for 2021 African Fact-Checking Awards entries

Applications have been invited from journalists and journalism students across the continent to submit entries for the 2021 African Fact-Checking Awards The awards are aimed at promoting the practice of fact-checking and making accurate information available to citizens of all countries across Africa. The 2021 categories include: • Fact-Check of the Year by a Working

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Eze, Sofiyat win News Digest Press writing contest

Pen Press Journalists, Promize Eze, popularly known as Chi Chi, a 300-Level student of Education Economics and Lawal Sofiyat, a final year student of Physics at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) have won the writing contest organized by News Digest Press. Promize Eze who emerged as the winner of the contest and Lawal Soffiyat bagged

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Call for #CREATESAFESPACES storytelling project.

The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism invites journalists, media professionals, freelancers and researchers, in the media industry to apply to be a part of its #CREATESAFESPACES storytelling project. The project aims to transform storytelling around Gender-based violence in ways that elicit prompt and positive responses from policymakers, security agencies, the judiciary and the larger

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