Founder and editor of the Foundation for Investigative journalism, Fisayo Soyombo is one of the “Merit Award” winner of the 2019 Karpoor Chandra Kulish International Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Soyombo was listed among seven merit award recipients for his 2019 undercover investigation on Nigeria’s criminal justice system funded by TheCable and the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), in an announcement by the organisers over the weekend.
The KC Kulish Award, set up in 2007 in the memory of Karpoor Chandra Kulish, who founded Indian newspaper Rajasthan Patrika in 1956, “recognizes the outstanding work of journalists” based on “teamwork, ground-level investigation and impact”.
Soyombo, former editor of The Cable, International Centre for Investigative Reporting and Sahara Reporters, was named on the three-man shortlist for the 2021 edition of One World Media’s International Journalist of the Year award to be decided next month.
His winning entry for 2021 shortlist was for ‘Portraits of Blood, his three-part series on the massacre of #EndSARS protesters by Nigerian soldiers on October 20, 2020.
