Winners of the 2021 Nigeria Media Merit Awards (NMMA) have emerged at the ceremony held in Lokoja, Kogi State on Saturday, October 30, 2021. According to The NMMA Trust, organisers of the award, a total of 1,050 entries, the highest ever received since the inauguration of the awards in 1991, were received for this year’s […]
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The Health Editor of Daily Trust Newspaper, Nigeria, Ojoma Akor has emerged as the third-place winner of the 2021 Global Nutrition and Food Security Reporting Contest for her story about a rural community’s efforts to stave off hunger in orphans. Leon Lidigu, a Kenyan journalist who revealed the struggles of a vulnerable community faced with malnutrition
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Founder/CEO of Afrobeats Intelligence, a weekly newsletter on African music, Joey Akpan has won a $10,000 (no strings attached) Creator Grant offered by Pallet, a New York-based organisation. Akpan is one of the three winners of the $10,000 grant which Pallet says is to accelerate the future it wants to see. “A world where consumers’
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Nigerian journalists won five out of the seven awards at stake at the West Africa Journalists of the fifth edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA) in Accra, Ghana on Friday. Samad Uthman of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Nigeria who now works for Dataphyte, Nigeria also emerged as joint
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Nigeria’s Investigative multimedia journalist, Uthman Samad is on the shortlist of ten for the 2021 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. His selection along with nine others from over 200 entries from 55 countries by the foundation judging panel was announced on Friday. After the next rounds of judging, when three finalists will be named, the
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Winners from South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda and Senegal have emerged in the 2021 African Fact-Checking Awards, held in a virtual ceremony on Tuesday 12 October 2021 as part of this year’s African Investigative Journalism Conference. According to a statement by the organisers, Jean le Roux from the Digital Forensic Research Lab’s team in Cape Town, South Africa,
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has opened its application portal for interested journalists to apply for the sixteenth edition of its annual Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. According to a press statement by the Executive Director/ CEO of the organisation, Mrs Motunrayo Alaka, Journalists from the print, online, photo, cartoon, television
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List of past overall winners of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting (2008-2020) and winning entries. 2008 WSCIJ-Nigerian Investigative Journalist Of The Year Deji Badmus Story: In the name of the Police Category: TV Media: Channels Television 2012 WSCIJ-Nigerian Investigative Journalist Of The Year Idris Akinbajo Story: The Massive MDG Fraud Category: Online Media:
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The Trustees of Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME)—Africa’s longest-running media awards programme—invite entries for its 30th edition of works produced in 2020 in the following Print, Online, and Broadcast categories: Reporting (12) Agriculture Reporting Business Reporting Child-Friendly Reporting Education Reporting Insurance Reporting Investigative Reporting Judiciary Reporting Lagos Reporting Nutrition Reporting Radio Reporting Sports Reporting Television
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For Kofi Adu Domfeh (Ghana) a development journalist from Ghana, winning the African Press Organisation (APO) Group Media Award is one of the major highlights of his career. The award gave him the opportunity to travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai to attend an International Conference on Energy which featured the Africa
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