The May 30th deadline for the submission of entries for the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist of the Year has been extended till June 6, 2014. The extension is to enable more journalists apply for this year’s award Two Nigerians who won in two categories of the award last year are Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye of Sunday Punch in the […]
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GE Energy & Infrastructure category endowed by global Energy and infrastructure giants, General Electric (GE) has been announced for the prestigious CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year 2014 awards. GE Africa CEO Jay Ireland in a statement said sponsorship of the Infrastructure and Energy category aligns with GE’s strategic objectives on the continent. He
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GE Energy & Infrastructure category endowed by global Energy and infrastructure giants, General Electric (GE) has been announced for the prestigious CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year 2014 awards. GE Africa CEO Jay Ireland in a statement said sponsorship of the Infrastructure and Energy category aligns with GE’s strategic objectives on the continent. He
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A Correspondent with Punch Nigeria Limited, Kunle Falayi, has won the overall prize of 2014 Promasidor Quill Awards for journalists. He also won two awards at the category level. His entry for the Best Report on Education: Lagos school where pupils sit on bare floor, was adjudged the best and therefore earned him the award for that category.
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Teliat Abiodun Sule of Business Day has been named winner of the 2014 Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards in Nigeria. His won the award with the article titled “The Return of African Kitchen Business” published in Business Day on January 17th, 2013. Collins Nweze of The Nation emerged the first runner-up with the story- Banking with
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Forty journalists across media houses in the country have been shortlisted by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), Abuja to participate in the first series of its Investigative Journalism training programme. The training programme scheduled for June 10 to June 12 in Abuja is part of the Nigerian Investigative Reporting Project, NIRP, a reporting
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African journalists, employed or freelancers working in the continent of Africa who have produced a story that has been made available as a printed publication or broadcast through an electronic medium (television; radio or digital platform) whose primary audience are based in Africa have been called to enter for the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Competition.
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The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (KSMF) is now accepting submissions for its 13th annual awards in international journalism. The awards that was established in 2002, were created in honour of American freelance journalist Kurt Schork, who was killed in 2000 while on assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone. The prestigious awards recognize the work
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For the second year running, a journalist with Nigeria’s most widely read newspaper,The PUNCH, has won the Nigerian Academy of Science Media Award. A senior health correspondent with The PUNCH, Bukola Adebayo, emerged the Science Journalist of the Year (2013) at the award ceremony, which held at the Protea Hotel in Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday. The
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Forty Nigerian journalists are to be trained over a two year period to conduct investigative reports on issues of transparency, accountability and good governance by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, Abuja. Necessary fund will also be provided for the trained journalists to undertake investigative projects. The ICIR is an independent, non-profit investigative reporting
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