Awards & Fellowships

awards

Entries invited for African-Fact-checking Awards 2018.

By Blessing Oladunjoye Africa Check has invited entries from journalists for the African-Fact-checking Awards 2018. Entries for the award must have been published or broadcast between 1 September 2017 and 15 August 2018 and should have exposed as misleading or wrong a claim on an important topic made by a public figure or institution in […]

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grants

Grants for investigating cross-boarder illicit finance

Grants are available for African, Asian and European journalists under the Money Trail project to investigate cross-border illicit financial flows, tax abuse and corruption in the continents. Money Trail is a collaborative project between top  journalism and training organisations – Finance Uncovered, Free Press Unlimited, Journalismfund.eu – and Oxfam Novib.The project offers working grants for

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IRU Media Award on Future of Transport,Trade open for entries

Winner of the Award open to all journalists worldwide will be offered free registration to the IRU World Congress in Muscat, Oman, with hotel and flights   A media award, recognising significant contributions from the media to the transport sector debate, has been launched by IRU (www.IRU.org)   to coincide with its World Congress in Oman,

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Awards

July 13 deadline for Nigeria Breweries Golden Pen Awards

July 13 is the deadline for entries for the 10th edition of the Nigerian Breweries (NB) Golden Pen Awards with Agriculture, Local Sourcing and Industrial Development as the theme. A minimum of three entries published in 2017 is allowed per journalist from all platforms. All entries according to the Corporate Adviser of the company, Kufre

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Hausa

BBC Hausa Women’s Writing Contest 2018 opens

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)  Hausa short story writing competition is now open for entries from all women writing in Hausa, irrespective of their nationality or experience. According to a press statement by Marina Forsythe BBC World Service Group Communications Publicist, entries must be engaging works of fiction on any topic and should be between 1000 to 1500 words. A

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Onwuwere tops Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards

Odimegwu Onwuwere of Africa Prime News has won the Pan African Journalist of the Year Award for the 2018 Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards sponsored by Continental Reinsurance. He emerged the overall winner of the three categories of the award  at a Gala dinner held during Continental Reinsurance’s CEO Summit held on April 9th 2018

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FINANCE

2018 CJEA: Calling exceptional finance, business journalists

Entries have been invited for the 2018 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award (CJEA) for finance and business reporting in Nigeria. February 26 is the deadline for submission of entries by any exceptional finance or business journalist working in print media, wire services or electronic media. “This year’s gifted winner will join others from countries across Europe,

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yusuf

The Nation’s Yusuf wins Investigative Journalist Award

Associate Editor and Head of Investigation Desk of The Nation Newspaper, Adekunle Yusuf has emerged the Investigative Journalist of the year at the 12th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Former Minister of Education, Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili, Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda, Edetaen Ojo and nine other outstanding journalists were honoured

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Wole Soyinka

Ezekwesili, Ojo, ten journalists listed for Wole Soyinka media awards

A former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, the Executive Director of the Media Rights Agenda, Edetaen Ojo, and ten journalists have been shortlisted for the 12th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting The ceremony organized by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is scheduled to hold on the World Anti-Corruption

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New Telegraph journalist emerges best reporter at GoldenPen, as NB rewards journalists

Isioma Madike, a reporter with the New telegraph newspaper has won the reporter of the year award at this year Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award. The reporterwon on his investigative report, “Shonga Farms: The dream of Zimbabwean Whites’’, which seek to reveal the happenings at the Shonga farm project believe to have been a dead

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