Awards & Fellowships

Journalists urged to participate in Promasidor’s Quill award

By Adediwura Aderibigbe, The Nation Journalists in the country  have been urged to participate in Promasidor’s annual Quill Awards competition. The competition is designed to reward excellent news reporting. Promasidor’s Head of Legal/Public Relations Andrew Enahoro spoke on Wednesday on the competition when he visited The Nation in Lagos. Enahoro said participation in the award

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Award for innovative young journalists

Entries are invited from innovative young journalists in Nigeria for the inaugural Journalists for Christ International Outreach Young Journalists Award. Interested applicants should send an application and details of their publication, broadcast or project from January to November 2013. Applications will be assessed on the basis of the uniqueness of the topics, dept of research

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Ogunseye, Ogunlesi win CNN/ Multichoice awards

Two of the three Nigerian nominees for the finals of the 2013 CNN/Multichoice African Journalist of the Year Awards emerged winners in their categories. Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye of Sunday Punch won  the UNICEF-sponsored Environment Category while  Tolu Ogunlesi, a freelance journalist for Ventures Africa was the winner of  the Coca-Cola Company, Economics and Biz Awards category

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Fellowship For Investigative Reporting on Tobacco Control

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Journalist Fellowship For Investigative Reporting on Tobacco Control Round One The Environmental Rights Action and the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (ERA/CISLAC) project is currently receiving applications for the inaugural Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) – funded  Journalist Fellowship  on Investigative Reporting on Tobacco Control Issues in Nigeria. The Fellowship grant is

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Application for Young Media award extended till Aug 2

Application for the Young Media Entrepreneur Award category of the 2013 Future Awards Africa has been extended to August 2, 2013. The Central Working Committee (CWC) of The Future Awards Africa is partnering with British Council for this year’s Future Awards Prize in Media Enterprise. The Young Media Entrepreneur Award is for an individual who

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April 17 deadline for CNN/Multichoice African Journalist Award

April 17, 2013 is the deadline for submission of entries for the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist Awards 2013. Requirements for  entry according to information available on the organiser’s website www.edition.cnn.com are as follows:   Who can enter You must be an African National, working on the continent for African owned, or headquartered, media organisations. Your work

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May 1 deadline for women journalists global fellowship

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is now accepting applications for the 2013/2014 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, designed for a woman journalist working in print, broadcast or digital news media to spend seven months in a tailored program that combines access to MIT’s Center for International Studies and media outlets including The Boston Globe and The

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