Awards & Fellowships

Migration and Climate Fellowship for Nigerian journalists

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is accepting applications for its Reporting Fellowship on Migration and Climate Change. The Fellowship is open to journalists from Nigeria who will take part in two half-day virtual workshops on covering SDGs, with a focus on climate and migration. Based on the stories produced after the workshop, Fellows will be […]

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Azzez of New Telegraph wins 2017 Most Outstanding ICT Editor award

Azzez Olakunle Yinus of New Telegraph has been adjudged as the Most Outstanding ICT Editor of the Year 2017 at this year’s edition of the African Digital Awards (ADA) . ADA is a Pan-African awards that recognises outstanding contributions to the development of ICT industry. Azzez won the award based on a report of  an independent

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1,2,3,4,5 PUNCH wins Science Media award again

Tunde Ajaja of Saturday PUNCH has emerged winner of the prize for Print-Science Journalist of the Year 2016 in the  National Academy of Science (NAS) media awards. Ajaja’s emergence, at the Annual Appreciation Luncheon for Science Journalists and award ceremony held on Thursday, is the fifth consecutive win by The PUNCH staff in the last five years.

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Print, online & broadcast journalists called to apply for award worth 1,000,000

Print, online and broadcast journalists have been called to apply to compete for a prize and win a whooping sum of CFA 1, 000,000 The Norbert Zongo National Press Centre, is a media organization based in Burkina Faso and is currently accepting applications for the competition. The Norbert Zongo Prize for Journalism honors excellence in

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Print, online & broadcast journalists called to apply for award worth 1,000,000

Print, online and broadcast journalists have been called to apply to compete for a prize and win a whooping sum of CFA 1, 000,000 The Norbert Zongo National Press Centre, is a media organization based in Burkina Faso and is currently accepting applications for the competition. The Norbert Zongo Prize for Journalism honors excellence in

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Adebayo, Punch Correspondent, bags Chevening Scholarship

Multiple award-winning Senior Correspondent of Punch Newspaper, Folashade Adebayo has been named one of the British Chevening Scholars for 2017/18. The award is a full-funded post-graduate study in the United Kingdom She will study International Relations and Law at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Reacting to selection for the scholarship, Folashade said “It is

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Journalists interested in feminism, social justice called to apply for BitchMedia Fellowship Award

Writers who are interested in feminism and social justice are called to apply for a remote, three-month fellowship as Bitch Media, a nonprofit feminist media organization, organizes the Bitch Media Fellowships for Writers. The program consists of intensive writing fellowships whose goal is to develop, support and amplify emerging, diverse voices in feminist, activist and pop-culture media. Possible subject areas

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Media Fellowship to support reporting of Nigeria's oil, gas sector

Nigerian Manager of the National Resource Government Institute (NRGI), Sarah Muyonga, has shared the results of the Resource Governance Index with a select group of journalists, focusing on Nigeria-specific findings. This session was part of an orientation for Media for Oil Reform (MFOR) Fellows including  Punch Newspaper’s Femi Asu, Daily Trust‘s Daniel Adugbo and Premium

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