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After five attempts, Soyombo wins Kurk Schork Awards

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After five attempts and three appearances on the shortlist of the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism, multiple award-winning investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo has emerged the 2020 winner of the Local Reporter category of the competition. In a press statement on Thursday by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Fisayo won for his undercover investigation on Nigeria’s criminal […]

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CNN’s Aisha Salaudeen wins The Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism

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Aisha Salaudeen Journalist and multi-platform producer with CNN International has emerged the winner of The Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism for 2020. She was announced as the winner of the award along with 19 others for other categories on Saturday, 28 November at the first-ever TV and digital edition of the competition. The Journalism

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Nigerians top West Africa Media Excellence Awards finalist list

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Seven Nigerian journalists are on the list of 20 finalists from six countries for the 2020 edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA 2020) organised by The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA). They were selected from 740 entries from 13 countries in West Africa by the five-member jury after a review of

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November 15 deadline for Migration Reporter Competition

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Sunday, November 15, 2020, is the deadline for The Migration Reporter Competition for Nigerian journalists launched by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The award is designed as an annual competition to commemorate International Migrants Day, a United Nations day to raise awareness about the benefits and challenges of international migration, as well as to

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COVID-19 Story: Calling Photographers, Videographers

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  ARE YOU A PHOTOGRAPHER OR A VIDEOGRAPHER? What’s your COVID-19 story? We’re looking for photo and video submissions that showcase African resilience in the wake of the pandemic.   A global pandemic dramatically reshaped the world, our continent, and all our lives. But amid the disruption, we’ve also seen hope. Innovators rising to respond

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Adejumo, two others make final list for global Young Journalists award

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Kabir Adejumo of Premium Times, #Nigeria and two other journalists have been named as the finalists for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalists Award 2020. The others are Martín Leandro Camacho from #Peru and Anna Myroniuk from #Ukraine  They were selected from an earlier shortlist of 12 out of the initial 200 entries from 55 countries. ”

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Nigeria’s Adebulu wins Africa Fact-Check of the Year award

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Taiwo Adebulu of The Cable Newspaper, Nigeria has won the *Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist award organized by Africa Check. He won with his entry: “Nigeria told UN that 7 varsities run strictly on renewable energy, but is this true?” https://bit.ly/37sJKSF In response to his award, Adebulu tweeted: Amidst the chaos and

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Call for #TransFatFreeNigeria Campaign Journalism fellowship

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The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has invited entries for the journalism fellowship on its #TransFatFreeNigeria Campaign. The fellowship supported by the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), is part of CAPPA’s efforts to build the capacity of the Nigerian media to report on trans fat. The fellowship is focused on ways to eliminate trans fat from Nigeria’s food supply from an informed perspective, in line with the World Health Organisation’s recommended standards

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Wole Soyinka Award

Entries for Wole Soyinka award: October 4- 24, 2020

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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has called for entries for its annual award for investigative reporting which will be received online for the first time from October 4, 2020. The 2020 award according to a statement by the Executive Director/CEO Mrs Motunrayo Alaka, will reward works that explore the intersection between Sustainable

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Eleven journalists nominated for 2020 African Fact-Checking Awards

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Eleven journalists have been named as finalists for the 2020 edition of the African Fact-Checking Awards. According to the shortlist announced by the organisers of the award, Africa Check four of the seven in the race for the Fact Check of the Year by a working journalist are Nigerians, while two other Nigerians also made

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