Awards & Fellowships

award

Entries open for Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting

The 13th Edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting is now open for entries from Nigerian professional journalists or team of journalists, full-time or part-time, with stories published between 4th October 2017 and 3rd October 2018. The Coordinator of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka in a statement said submitted […]

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fellowship

Call for Female Journalists Leadership Fellowship entries

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has invited applications for the Female Journalists Leadership Fellowship (A leadership training and mentorship programme) Applicants should be  female Nigerian professional journalists who have a passion for ethical journalism, are committed to excellent professional media practice, possess great ideas to lead dynamic improvements on the practice and

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media

Applications invited for ‘Merck More Than a Mother’ Media Awards 2018

Media professionals in Africa have been invited to apply for ‘Merck More Than a Mother’ Media recognition Awards 2018 sponsored by Merck Foundation (Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany. The applicants are to showcase their work to raise awareness about infertility prevention and make infertility and breaking infertility stigma in Africa. The awards according

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Ojo

Ojo The Nation’s reporter named UN journalism fellow

The Nation’s reporter Hannah Ojo has been named as one of the fifteen 2018 fellows for United Nation’s Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalism Fellowship. The programme is an opportunity for young journalists from developing countries and countries with economies in transition to cover the United Nations. Hosted every fall at UN Headquarters, the programme brings a

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Media fellowsihip for video journalists, cinematorgraphers

Blessing Oladunjoye The CcHub has called on video-journalists and cinematographer who believe in the power of stories disrupting the Media Industry to be part of its 3-months intensive media fellowship programme. According to the technology centre, the fellowship would provide opportunity to gain insight into indigenous media industry’s issues and participants stand to receive guidance

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campus

Campus journalists win Alfred Opubor Campus Journalism Award

Winners have emerged for the Alfred Opubor Campus Journalism Award organized by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ). The winners are Adekunle Adebanjo; Best Oponion Piece, Okafor Chiamaka; Best Community Journalism story and Best female campus reporter and  Kabir Adejumo, Best investigative story, most prolific writer and best male campus reporter. Premium Times

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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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