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African journalists win Labour Migration Reporting Awards

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Journalists from across Africa have won various categories of the Labour Migration Reporting Awards. The awards were hosted by African Women in Media (AWiM), in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), International Labour Organization (ILO) and International Organization for Migration (IOM), under the Joint Labour Migration Programme (JLMP). The winners and their categories are: […]

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After five attempts, Soyombo wins Kurk Schork Awards

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After five attempts and three appearances on the shortlist of the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism, multiple award-winning investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo has emerged the 2020 winner of the Local Reporter category of the competition. In a press statement on Thursday by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Fisayo won for his undercover investigation on Nigeria’s criminal

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CNN’s Aisha Salaudeen wins The Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism

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Aisha Salaudeen Journalist and multi-platform producer with CNN International has emerged the winner of The Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism for 2020. She was announced as the winner of the award along with 19 others for other categories on Saturday, 28 November at the first-ever TV and digital edition of the competition. The Journalism

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1,2,3,4,5 Nigeria tops in West Africa Media Excellence Awards

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Five Nigerian journalists on Saturday night won five of the eight categories of the 2020 West Africa Media Excellence Awards held in Accra, Ghana. The winners are as follows: Best Reporter, Telecommunications and ICTs Innocent Duru, The Nation Newspaper, Best Reporter, Business and SMEs Kelechukwu Iruoma Best reporter, Investigative Reporting Fisayo Soyombo, The cable, Environmental

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Nigerians top West Africa Media Excellence Awards finalist list

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Seven Nigerian journalists are on the list of 20 finalists from six countries for the 2020 edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA 2020) organised by The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA). They were selected from 740 entries from 13 countries in West Africa by the five-member jury after a review of

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Eleven journalists nominated for 2020 African Fact-Checking Awards

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Eleven journalists have been named as finalists for the 2020 edition of the African Fact-Checking Awards. According to the shortlist announced by the organisers of the award, Africa Check four of the seven in the race for the Fact Check of the Year by a working journalist are Nigerians, while two other Nigerians also made

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What can winning media awards do for your career?

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Lekan Otufodunrin read about the impact of the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist award on the careers of past winners of the programme and was inspired to write the article for particularly journalists who have never applied for such awards. When the founder of the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist Award Edward Boateng asked Joana Mantey of Ghana if

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‘Five International, local fellowships: What worked for me’

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From her Minna, Niger State base where she is the Correspondent of The Nation Newspapers, Justina Asishana has been selected for major international and national journalism fellowships, grants and conferences. They include: * Fellowship to attend the Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2017 * International Centre For Journalists (ICFJ) Safety Fellowship 2018 * Dubawa Fact-checking Fellowship

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