Month: December 2018

    IS THIS WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR?

    http://journalism.co.za/osffellowships/

    Five Open Society Fellowships in Investigative Reporting are available each year for 2019, 2020 and 2021. Each fellowship will last for 18 months, consisting of 12 months’ study, 6 months’ internship and attendance at two international investigative journalism conferences (one in South African and one in the USA).

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    Fwd: Thomson Reuters Foundation: Reporting Rural Poverty and Agricultural Development Workshop

    Deadline: 2 January 2019
    The Thomson Reuters Foundation is inviting journalists for its Reporting Rural Poverty and Agricultural Development workshop.
    In order to ensure the daily issues faced by rural poor people and their communities are acknowledged, it is important that their stories are heard and their voices are amplified. With funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the specialised UN agency, they will bring together journalists from around the world to attend this workshop aimed to enable journalists to tell the story of rural development.

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    COMMUNITY REPORTING IN NIGERIA

    By Oluwatosin Akinrinde

    It is a known fact that the media is saddled with the primary responsibility of portraying issues that are peculiar to a particular set of people within a socio-political terrain. It is of essence to note that the authors of our 1999 constitution understood the necessity for community reporting by inserting a fundamental clause in section 22.

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    JOURNALISTS CAN STOP THE SPREAD OF FAKE STORIES, PHOTOS AND VIDEOS

    Journalists across various media houses gathered in Lagos to learn the rudiments of election reporting. The training titled ELECTIONS FROM A DRONE VIEW, was organized by MEDRIVE, a media hub focused on impact journalism. Read More