Career Development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin highlights lessons from the career accomplishments of a female journalist in 2020 and suggests what journalists should do in 2021. In case you missed it, below is what Elfredah Kelvin, a journalist based in Port Harcourt, River State shared online on December 31 titled ” OVERVIEW OF INCREDIBLE 2020″ about […]
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Nigerian science writer, Abdullahi Tsanni has been named along with three others for the four early-career science journalism fellowship by The Open Notebook, (TON). The other fellows are Pedro Márquez-Zacarías, a PhD candidate in quantitative biosciences at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, María Paula Rubiano A., Colombian freelance science journalist and Carolyn Wilke, Chicago-based freelance journalist.
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What’s the big deal about winning media awards? Lekan Otufodunrin, media career development specialist, explains why awards should be given due consideration by journalists. The best journalist is not necessarily an award-winning journalist. There are many things involved in winning media awards. Usually, except in a few cases, interested persons have to apply and meet
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Journalists from across Africa have won various categories of the Labour Migration Reporting Awards. The awards were hosted by African Women in Media (AWiM), in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), International Labour Organization (ILO) and International Organization for Migration (IOM), under the Joint Labour Migration Programme (JLMP). The winners and their categories are:
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Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, DAME has announced the winners of the 29th edition of its award at a ceremony on Saturday, December 12, 2020 in Lagos. List of the winners of the various categories are as follows: Newspaper of the Year The Nation Nutrition Reporting Award Chioma Obinna, Vanguard’s Senior Health Correspondent Editor of
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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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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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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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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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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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