Vacancies
VACANCY: Pidgin Editor at BBC
The BBC is looking for an excellent senior journalist to be the Editor of the Pidgin Language Service to deliver a dynamic range of digital, audio and video content. The Editor will report to the […]
Blog
Campus
Premium Times trains LASU campus writers on journalism ethics
Nigeria’s online news medium, Premium Times will train campus writers at the Lagos State University (LASU) on the ethics of the journalism. The “3 Days Journalism Workshop for Intending Campus Journalists” is slated to hold […]
Fellowships
2019 Falling Walls fellows unveiled
The Falling Walls has unveiled the list of eleven fellows for the 2019 edition of the fellowship programme. The freelance and full-time journalists and bloggers unveiled include Doreen Andoh, Mickael Barbieri, Rina Diane Caballar, Crystal […]
Awards
Iraqi photographer Ali Arkady wins Free Press Award 2019
Ali Arkady has won the Most Resilient Journalist Award for his exceptional courage and persistence. The award was presented to him at Free Press Live 2019 in The Hague. Other award winners include Elias Huuhtanen […]
Resources
FULL SPEECH: 2019 Carlos Cardoso Lecture delivered by Mimi Mefo
This address was delivered by award-winning journalist and former resident English PEN (the founding centre of PEN International) Mimi Mefo Takambou at the Carlos Cardoso Memorial Lecture at this prestigious African Investigative Journalism Conference 2019. “Even […]
Vacancies
VACANCY: Bureau Chief, West & Central Africa at Reuters
Thomson Reuters is looking for an experienced, self-starting journalist to be our bureau chief for West & Central Africa, based in Dakar-Senegal. The successful candidate will write and oversee ground-breaking, insightful coverage on a wide […]
Conferences & Scholarships
Thomson Reuters Reporting Workshop on Trafficking and Slavery 2019
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1ST This is an opportunity provided by the Reporting on Trafficking and Slavery programme. Migration and the global trade in human beings is bigger today than at any time in history. Estimates of […]
Resources
Full Text: Maria Ressa’s Keynote Speech for Global Investigative Journalism Conference
This is the prepared remarks by Rappler’s CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa delivered as the keynote speech at the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Hamburg. This text was first published on Rappler. Moved […]
Awards
2019 Free Press Awards holds Thursday, finalists unveiled
The 2019 edition of Free Press Awards organised by Free Press Unlimited, a nonprofit organisation based in the Netherlands, will hold on Thursday, October 31st. Journalists with a strong commitment to press freedom and independent […]
Awards
Nigerian, Senegalese journalists win Africa Check Fact-Checking Awards
Senior Editorial Analyst/Industry Editor of BusinessDay Media, Odinaka Anudu has been awarded winner of the Africa Check Fact-Check Of The Year By A Working Journalist. Anudu was awarded at the sixth annual Africa Check Fact-Checking […]