Awards & Fellowships

Nigerian gets ‘ NEW Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund’ grant

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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 (Four Nigerians) win 2021 West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards

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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

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Two Nigerians nominated for Africa investigative journalism award

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Banjo Damilola, award-winning Nigeria investigative journalist and Yusuf Akinpelu, Head of Data Desk Premium Times Nigeria have been nominated for the Norbert Zongo (PAJI-NZ) African Prize for Investigative Journalism. Nominees for the investigative journalism award were drawn from four categories: newspaper press, radio, television and online press. Both Banjo and Akinpelu were nominated for the

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New Telegraph’s Elegbede wins NMMA Foreign Reporter of the Year 2021 Award

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The Board of Assessors of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMM) has adjudged multiple award-winning journalist, Wale Elegbede, as Nigeria’s Foreign Reporter of the Year 2021. Elegbede’s winning entry, ‘Foreign Missions: Underfunding, Corruption Battered Nigeria’s Image’, chronicled tales of woes, disappointments, ill-treatment, corruption, and poor services rendered to Nigerians by foreign missions, which ought

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Daily Trust’s Health Editor third in global reporting contest

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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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Nigeria’s Newsletter publisher, others win $10,000 grant

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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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Nigeria’s Samad, nine others make shortlist for global Young Journalist award

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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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2021 African Fact-Checking Awards Winners

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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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