By Media Career | 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.…
The Interactive Initiative for Social Impact, through its data for development programme Dataphyte, are to receive a $15,000 grant from the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University and Big Local News. In Nigeria, Dataphyte journalists will research on the effects of…
A six-month Media-in-Health-Care-Accountability Project through which the International Press Centre hopes to facilitate the emergence of a corps of next generation investigative health reporters is commencing this December. The project seeks to enhance the capacity of the media and younger…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | As the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists, Nigeria marks its 10 years of existence, it is calling on all stakeholders to ensure quality sexual reproductive health care services among all Nigerians especially women and young girls.…
By JOAN Yakub | Olayide Akanni, Executive Director, Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS), has disclosed that the COVID-19 pandemic has eroded the consciousness of people to HIV/AIDS infection which has led to an increase in the number of positive cases over…
By Lanre Arogundade | “Nigeria’s ranking on the Press Freedom Index continues to sit in the red zone, ranking 115 in the 2020 ranking, an improvement on its 2019 ranking but no less solidly red, the colour used to identify…
Efforts to combat misinformation in the continent received further boost on Friday with the launch of the FactCheckHub – an independent, fact-checking by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (The ICIR) The FactCheckHub, an initiative of the ICIR with the support of the…
Clockwise from top left: Svetlana Prokopyeva (Artiom Avanesov); Dapo Olorunyomi (Dapo Olorunyomi); Shahidul Alam (Shahidul Alam); Mohammad Mosaed (Farid Kamran Nia) The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four courageous journalists from Bangladesh, Iran, Nigeria, and Russia with the 2020 International Press…
The Association of Telephone, Cable TV and Internet Subscribers of Nigeria (ATCIS) has given the Federal Government and Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) 20 days ultimatum to order the cable service provider, MultiChoice Company Limited, to revert its increased tariffs on…
BudgIT, a Nigerian civic organisation that applies technology for citizen engagement, has unveiled eight fellows for the 2020 Civic Hive Media Fellowship programme. BudgIT’s Civic Media fellowship program started the year 2017, where it featured journalists who were focused on…
