Awards & Fellowships

fellows

Four Nigerian journalists, others named Energy Reporting fellows

Oluwatomisin Amokeoja Four Nigerian journalists are among the 12 fellows selected by the Climate Tracker in collaboration with Hivos Energy for it’s African Sustainable Energy Reporting Fellowship. The Nigerian fellows are Niyi Oyedeji, Amos Abba ( both of International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), Oladeinde Olawoyin of Premium Times and  Jennifer Ugwa. The selection process […]

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journalist

Nigerian journalist selected for Global Sustainable Solutions Fellowship

Writer and freelance journalist, Mr Daniel Whyte, has been selected as one of the four fellows to participate in the 2020 Global Sustainable Solutions Stories Fellowship. Oluwatomisin Amokeoja reports that the fellowship is a six-month paid media mentorship-fellowship combo offered by Climate Tracker in partnership with One Earth. Whyte announced the selection through the micro-blogging

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journalists

‘How to access many opportunities for journalists despite the pandemic’

  Patrick Egwu, Nigerian award-winning freelance journalist currently a fellow on the Investigative Reporting programme of the Open Society Foundations at the University of the Witwatersrand speaks on the various opportunities journalists should take advantage of despite the impact of the pandemic on the media industry The COVID-19 pandemic occurred while you are on a

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Media Programmes THISWEEK ( July 20-25,2020)

Various media programmes, including lectures, training, workshops and others by various organisations will hold this week July 20-25, 2020. The programmes are listed below with details. Compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga Monday, July 20th, 2020 The International Symposium on Online Journalism will for the first time in its 21-year history, not hold its traditional in-person conference. ISOJ

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Virtual

Lecturer wins $234,000 grant for Virtual Reality Research

A lecturer at Lagos Business School (LBS), Dr Eugene Ohu, has won a grant of $234,000 from Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc (TWCF) to conduct two-year virtual reality research. According to a statement by the LBS, the grant was awarded under TWCF’s Global Innovations for Character Development (GICD) initiative. The research project titled “Teaching Children Empathy

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journalists

Six journalists commence BudgIT/Civic Hive media fellowship

Six Nigerian journalists have been named as 2020 BudgIT/Civic Hive Media Fellows. The journalists are Taiwo Adebulu, an investigative reporter with TheCable; Frank Ikpefan, Education and Labour reporter at The Nation Newspaper; Osaruonamen Ibizugbe, Correspondent with ITV Abuja; Babatunde Okunola, Content lead, Royal FM Ilorin; Gbenga Ogundare, Freelance Investigative Journalist and Kelechuckwu Iruoma, Freelance Investigative

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editorial

Vacancy: Assistant Editorial Project Manager

The service of an Assistant Editorial Project Manager is needed by the International Centre for Journalists. The right candidate must be a skilled multimedia journalist/media practitioner willing to work on a fact-checking project with multiple media partners and social media influencers for a fixed-term period? Key requirements: 3-5 years of experience as a journalist/ media

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freedom

Premium Times publisher, three others named Press Freedom awardees

Co-founder and publisher of Premium Times, Dapo Olorunyomi and three other journalists have been named as awardees of the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The others are Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh), renowned photojournalist and commenter, and the founder of the Bangladeshi multimedia training organization the Pathshala Media Institute, Mohammad

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Online health workshop for Nigerian journalists

Nigerian journalists concerned about the spread of health-related misinformation in the age of COVID-19 can attend an online workshop by Africa Check. The one-day online Health Misinformation workshop will focus on sorting facts from fiction. Applications are invited from  journalists based in Kano (Kano State), Lagos (Lagos State), Ibadan (Oyo State), Benin (Edo State), Port

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