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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), through its Natural Resources Programme (NAREP), invites applications for its inaugural climate change media fellowship across west Africa. The fellowship is aimed at shedding light on the importance of climate change issues in West Africa including evidence and solutions to the crises. The training which will last
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One thing I like to pay attention to at media awards ceremonies is not only who the winners were, but the reasons they won. I pay attention to the verdict of the judges who assessed the entries and why they preferred the winning entries out of the whole lot they looked through. Some keywords usually
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A Correspondent of The Punch Newspaper, Tunde Ajaja and Assistant Chief Producer of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) Funke Fayemi are the winners of the 2020 National Academy of Science (NAS) Science Media Award. Ajaja won the print category, while Fayemi is the winner of the broadcast category out of the 47 entries for the
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