{"id":7498,"date":"2022-06-10T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i79media.com\/?p=7498"},"modified":"2022-06-10T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:32:34","slug":"campus-journalists-get-grants-to-pursue-solutions-stories-in-nigeria-ghanas-education-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i79media.com\/campus-journalists-get-grants-to-pursue-solutions-stories-in-nigeria-ghanas-education-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus journalists get grants to pursue solutions stories in Nigeria, Ghana\u2019s education sector"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Blessing Udeobasi<\/strong> \u2014 <\/em>One of Nigeria\u2019s leading media training hubs, I-79 Media Consults, recently trained about 30 campus journalists from West Africa on solutions journalism.<\/p>\n The training organised as part of the 2022 LEDE Fellowship facilitated by the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) also awarded a $100 grant each to 15 participants who were onboarded as Campus Solutions Ambassadors.<\/p>\n The three-day training which was held between 24th to 26th May 2022 engaged and prepared campus journalists to report social responses to challenges facing the education sector in their immediate environments.<\/p>\n Speaking on the theme, \u201cCampus Solutions\u201d, over seven known solutions journalism experts in Africa, with a track record of enviable works, took the time to expose the different facets of solutions journalism.<\/p>\n On the first day of the training, Seun Durojaiye, Innocent Eteng, and Chibuike Alagboso dissected \u2018The four pillars and impostors of solutions journalism\u2019, \u2018Effective storytelling and use of data in solutions reporting\u2019, and \u2018Anatomy of a SoJo story\u2019 respectively.<\/p>\n