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Adebayo, Punch Correspondent, bags Chevening Scholarship

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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

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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

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

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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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Worldwide Fellowship for Democratic practitioners, scholars and journalists

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Journalists worldwide who wish to know more about democracy can apply for the Reagan-Fascell Democracy fellowship. The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program, organized by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), aims to enable democratic practitioners, scholars and journalists to deepen their understanding of democracy and enhance their ability to promote democratic change. Winners of the Fellowship are

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2017 Award: Thomson Foundation launches search for best young journalist

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Thomson Foundation, in partnership with the UK Foreign Press Association (FPA), is inviting young journalists from around the world to submit their most compelling stories. Now leading into its fifth year, the Young Journalist Award is Thomson Foundation’s most proudly ambitious annual journalism competition, dedicated to finding and inspiring emerging journalistic talent from across the

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Call for entries: NB Golden Pen 2017 Awards

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The call for entries for the 9th edition of Nigerian Breweries Plc Golden Pen Awards has been announced. According to the Nigerian Breweries’ Corporate Affairs Adviser, Mr Kufre Ekanem, the award was introduced to promote professionalism and objective reportage of events in Nigeria. Journalists from all media platforms with reports published and broadcast in 2016,

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Apply: News Corp Media Fellowship For African Journalists

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Are you an African journalist interested in sharpening your digital skills while working alongside your peers in London? Are you eager to share your experience with award-winning colleagues abroad? Then, you should apply to the News Corp Media Fellowship for a chance to learn how some of the most prestigious news outlets in the world

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African fact-checking awards set to reward investigative African reporters, students

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The African Fact-Checking Awards, now in their fourth edition are set up specifically to honour the best, non-partisan fact-checking journalism by working and student journalists on the continent. In their first year, 2014, the awards were won by two journalists from Ghana, and the runners-up came from Kenya and Zambia. In 2015, the winner came

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