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2 Nigerians selected for Newmark J-School Inaugural AI Journalism Lab

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Two Nigerians have been selected for the inaugural AI Journalism Lab at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.   Award winning Nigerian journalists and founder of FactMattersNG, Hannah Ajakaiye and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID)’s Head of Innovation, Monsur Hussain were among the cohort of 25 journalists, media leaders, academics, […]

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Nike Popoola holding her Pan African Reinsurance journalism award plaque at the event

Popoola wins Pan-African insurance Journalism Award third time

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Former  Assistant Editor of the Punch Newspaper, Nike Popoola has emerged the overall winner for the 9th edition of the Pan African ReInsurance Journalism Awards.  She was announced at the 2024 award ceremony which coincides with the awarding organisation, Continental Reinsurance’s annual CEO Summit held April 12 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe  According to a statement

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Mansir Muhammed, GIS/OSINT Specialist of HumAngle and 2024Sigma Award Winner,

‘Collaborative work in journalism brings out the most powerful reports’

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Mansir Muhammed, a GIS/OSINT specialist at HumAngle was named among the winners of the 2024 Sigma Awards celebrating excellent data journalism projects globally for his report published alongside an extensive investigation by HumAngle in collaboration with New Lines Magazine. In this interview with our correspondent, Noah Aderoju, Muhammed spoke about his work as a technologist/journalist

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Rotimi Sankore: Accomplished journalist, media trainer dead

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Rotimi Sankore, an accomplished Journalist, media trainer, development expert and human rights advocate is dead. A statement by his family signed by Deji Dosunmu confirmed that he died on Friday, April 12th  after a hard fight with cancer surrounded by loved ones. Sankore who until his death was Executive Director/Editor in Chief of the Africa

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Pictures of Kemi Busari on the Left and Linda Ngari on the rigth, winners of the 2024 Micheal Elliot Award

Again, Nigerian Journalist wins African Storytelling award.

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Editor of Dubawa, a Nigerian fact-checking and investigative journalism platform, Kemi Busari has won the 2024 edition of the Micheal Elliot Award for Excellence in African Storytelling, a year after another Nigerian journalist Kunle Adebajo of HumAngle won as a co-winner.  Busari is the fifth Nigerian journalist to have won the continental award given out

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World Radio Day: Journalists recount their radio career stories

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In commemoration of World Radio Day 2024, we collated thoughts of journalists and media managers  on their career journeys in the radio in or through radio. ‘My involvement in radio was intentional’ My name is Ayodele, Emmanuel Eyitayo (TheVeryMostBlessedOne), C.E.O, Director of News, S.M.A FM, 104.7 MHz, EJIGBO, LAGOS & S.M.A FM, 104.7 MHz, IKOFA,

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Journalists get new jobs with global platforms

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Three Nigerian journalists who have made their mark in the Nigerian media space with outstanding performance have moved on to international media platforms.   They took to their social media pages to share the good news have expressed their joy and enthusiasm for their new roles while being celebrated by their fellows. Samad Uthman a multi-award-winning

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