Various media programmes, including lectures, training, workshops and others by various organisations will hold this week July 20-25, 2020. The programmes are listed below with details.
Compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga
Monday, July 20th, 2020
The International Symposium on Online Journalism will for the first time in its 21-year history, not hold its traditional in-person conference. ISOJ Online will be held July 20 to 24, 2020 on Zoom and you can still register to participate.
Register here for General Admission (daily keynote sessions and panels), the two virtual parties and our traditional Research Breakfast (for scholars).
Registration is free for all events, but the number of people on each session on Zoom may be limited. If the room happens to be full, please watch the event on the Knight Center’s YouTube channel.
Join editors, producers, executives, and academics from around the world in one of the best journalism conferences.
Use #ISOJ2020 to engage with us on social media. Visit ISOJ.org for updates and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Tuesday, 21st July 2020
Amnesty International Nigeria will host a virtual meeting with journalists.
The event will discuss the theme; Mainstreaming Human Rights in Journalism in Nigeria.
Amnesty International is the world’s largest human rights organization. Amnesty has created a worldwide movement with a mission to prevent and stop grave violations of human rights, like the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom on conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination.
Contact Kehinde Adegboyega to participate.
Wednesday, July 22th, 2020
Entries for the seventh edition of the African Fact-Checking Awards will close today.
It is the only award programme that honours journalism by Africa-based media in the expanding field of fact-checking.
In 2019, the organisers received a total of 153 entries from more than 20 countries – from Ethiopia, Nigeria and Senegal to Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe. In the inaugural year, 2014, we received entries from about 40 journalists across 10 countries.”
“Entries must have been first published or broadcast on any date from 1 August 2019 to 22 July 2020. They should have exposed a claim on an important topic made by a public figure or institution in Africa as misleading or wrong.
The winner of the award for a best fact-checking report by a working journalist will get a prize of $3,000, while the runner-up will be awarded $1,500. The winner of the award for a best fact-checking report by a student journalist will get a prize of $2,000, and the runner-up $1,000.”
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Global Investigative Journalism Network will host a free one hour webinar on open source investigations in Africa.
This one-hour webinar is free and designed for journalists interested in investigating the COVID-19 crisis. It’s the seventeenth in a GIJN series. Click to register,Investigating the Pandemic.
Coming soon: Where Do We Go from Here — New Avenues for Investigative Reporting on the Pandemic. Watch Twitter feed @gijn andnewsletter for future events.
Date: Thursday 23 July 2020
Time: 14:00 BST (Abuja, London, Tunis)
Saturday, July 25, 2020
A 6-week practical-based virtual course (on WhatsApp/ZOOM) which is SPECIALLY aimed at providing cutting edge innovative skills and building human capacity to overcome the socio-economic disruption of COVID-19 and ADVANCE in our career aspirations, business prospects, entrepreneurship interests as well as income generation possibilities for sustainability and well-being commences today.
This course, tagged, “Personal & organizational Branding, Small enterprise sustainability and Strategic Communications Skills”, is to empower participants with skills and knowledge to advance towards SUCCESS and increase potentials to attaining desired career, personal or organizational prospects.
The course shall also explore options for MULTIPLE STREAMS OF INCOME beyond covid19 limitations and guide participants on emerging innovations to reposition for greater results through personal and organizational branding, using animated multi-media skills to boost and enhance their capacity for more value, applying creative writing/freelancing skills to earn additional income as well as strategic communication tools to enhance career, vocational, entrepreneurial and NGO/enterprise ventures interests for the NEXT LEVEL success, BEYOND the LIMITS of emerging COVID-19 socio-economic disruptions.
This SPECIAL 6 weeks course is a building on the achievement of the ‘BEYOND THE LIMITS’ WhatsApp platform, which Since June 6, 2020, have had series of FREE capacity and counselling sessions, reaching and interfacing with over 200 persons. The platform, which has had GUEST FACILITATORS every Saturday, including the midweek ‘REFLECTIONS’ videos and interactive session on personal development and related issues is continuing with capacity building interactive sessions @ WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HoRjpPl5gpaCo2bi4s9CuX.
