Media Programmes and activities scheduled to hold this week include webinar, the commemoration of the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists and others between Monday, November 2-Saturday, November 7, 2020. The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details.
MONDAY, November 2, 2020
PAN AFRICAN RE/INSURANCE AWARDS
Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards invites entries for the 6th edition awards.
Business journalists from across Africa are invited to submit, within the next three months, entries for the 6th edition of the Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards. Similar to past editions, the 2021 Awards are open to all business journalists from anglophone and francophone countries.
Click here to Apply: https://bitstopia.com/pan-african-re-insurance-journalism-awards/
COMMEMORATION OF INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END IMPUNITY FOR CRIMES AGAINST JOURNALISTS
On this occasion, UNESCO will release a brochure with the highlights of DG’s Report on the safety of journalists and the question of impunity and launch an awareness-raising campaign.
The brochure will be available in all 6 UN official languages.
Time:3:00pm
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
Passcode: 080694
Webinar ID: 886 3734 6897
Passcode: 080694
TUESDAY, November 3, 2020
Deadline: Chevening Africa Media Freedom Fellowship
The Chevening Africa Media Freedom Fellowship (CAMFF) is aimed at mid-senior level African professionals with demonstrable leadership skills in their fields, which may include public servants working in areas of media policy and regulatory frameworks, or media professionals such as journalists. Selected fellows will be from the following Sub-Sahara African countries: Ethiopia, Burundi, Cameroon, Gambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
Kindly click here to Apply:https://t.co/VMq3Xyv3Mm
THURSDAY, November 5, 2020
LAGOS NUJ ELECTION
The election of a new executive for the Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists holds today. Two groups led by the incumbent Chairman, Dr. Quasim Akinreti, Deputy Director, Voice of Nigeria and Mr. Leye Ajayi, Deputy Editor-in-Chief with the News Agency of Nigeria are competing to win the various positions.
Story Walk-Through Europe’s COVID-19 Spending Spree Unmasked
This webinar has been organized in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
Speaker: Andriana Homolova, Data Journalist OCCRP.
Time: 10:00am E.T(4:00p.m CET/3:00p.m GMT)
Click here to register: https://t.co/wgVebusFtw https://t.co/cXqr3vpSuy (https://twitter.com/ICFJ/status/1322931512090775552?s=20)
SATURDAY, November 7, 2020
The Journalism and Development Seminars Initiative
Award-winning Journalists from Nigeria and Dubai will give out tips on the Art of Impact Reporting.
Speakers include Mr. Gbemiga Ogunleye, immediate past Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ); Mrs Ibim Semenitari, Publisher, Business Eye magazine and former AG MD of the Niger Delta Development Commission and Ms Eithne Treanor, Ex BBC, CNBC and Sky Journalist’ now Media trainer to top execs and CEOs.
Time: 11a.m. (WAT)
To Register Please E-Mail:JADESEMINARS@GMAIL.COM
Zoom to be sent upon registration
