The CNN/Multichoice African Journalist of the Year is one of the prestigious media awards which will be competed for this year. In this piece, Lekan Otufodunrin brings you some useful career lessons about the winners and winning entries. Become multimedia skilled Teblo Timse, reporter of Mail and Guardian Centre for Investigative Journalism SA has a […]
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Winners have emerged in the 2014 Nigerian Academy of Science awards. Folashade Adebayo, a senior correspondent with The Punch newspaper won the print category while Vivian Irikefe of TVC was named winner of the prize in the broadcast category. Ms. Irikefe, said to be the only journalists to have won the award twice was declared
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Entries are being received for the Promasidor Quill Awards for 2015. The award which started in 2013 is a platform in Nigeria to reward journalists with befitting prizes for dedicated news reportage all year round. Deadline for submission of entries is April 30. Qualifying entries are publications from April 1, 2014 to April 1, 2015
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Arts Editor of Newswatch Times Newspapers, Ada Dike has been awarded Press Award 2014 by the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA) Lagos State Chapter. The award held on December 19, 2014 is in recognition of her excellent reporting on the visual Arts, coupled with her zeal towards the development of art in Nigeria. According to
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Journalists covering religion can apply for Religion Newswriter Association (RNA) Awards for Religion Reporting Excellence honor journalists from newspapers, magazines, broadcast outlets, online outlets, student publications and book authors who write about religion. The categories of the awards are the followings Newspapers Small newspapers—weekday circ. 50,000 or less (Cassels Award) Mid-size newspapers—weekday circ. between 50,001–150,000 (Cornell
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Outstanding Nigerian Journalists who have shown creativity and excellence in their works had been recognized and awarded at the just concluded Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) award held on Sunday night in Lagos. The award that has 20 categories has The Nation Newspaper winsfive awards in Informed Commentary, Development, Reporting, Health Reporting, Political
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On Sunday, November 23, the 2014 edition of the Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) will hold in Lagos with winners emerging in various categories. The winners will join the list of outstanding Nigerian journalists who have recently won local or international media awards this year for their publications and broadcasts. The Nigeria Media
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Science journalist, Aimable Twahirwa from Rwanda has won the APO (African Press Organization) (http://www.apo-opa.com invitation to participate in the AfricaCom 2014, Africa’s leading telecoms event (http://www.comworldseries.com/africa), scheduled to hold in Cape Town, South Africa, on 11–13 November 2014. APO, the sole press release newswire in Africa and the global leader in media relations relating to
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By Seye Joseph @Seyetweets Obinna Emelike of Business Day Newspaper and Olatunji Olalade of The Nation Newspaper have won the 2014 CNN Multichoice African Journalists Award in the Culture and Health categories respectively. They emerged winners along with others at the Gala Awards ceremony held at Mlimani City Conference Centre, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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As part of her effort to reward excellence and creativity in journalism, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has called for application into the ninth edition of the award. In a statement that was signed by the Coordinator of Centre, Motunrayo Alaka has it that the award is opened for submission on Saturday