The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism is calling for applications for the 12th edition of Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Nigerian journalists or team of journalists, full or part-time, with stories published between 4th October 2016 and 3rd October 2017, can apply for opportunity.<\/p>\n
This award seeks to honour journalism works from the print, online, photo, editorial cartoon, television, and radio categories in general. The submitted reports must involve in-depth coverage of clandestine activities on public and or corporate corruption, human rights abuses, or on regulatory failures in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
In addition to the broad categories, WSCIJ in collaboration with Oxfam, an organisation dedicated to working to end the injustices that cause poverty, has included a special prize for reporting agriculture and food security in this year\u2019s edition. The prize, which is part of a larger programme, will serve as an encouragement to reporters who are dedicated to reporting the focus area.<\/p>\n
Received entries will be collated using the award coding system and assessed by a panel of media experts and related professionals with good understanding of investigative reporting. Judges would broadly score stories based on quality of investigation, evidence, human rights elements, ethical reportage, courage, individual creativity, public interest, impact and quality of presentation.<\/p>\n
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ELIGIBILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n The Award is open to any Nigerian professional reporter or team of reporters (full time or freelancers), 18-years and above, who have published stories either online, in print, or through electronic media primarily targeted at and received by a Nigerian audience.<\/p>\n CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n CRITERIA<\/strong> An applicant may only submit a maximum of a total of two entries.<\/strong><\/p>\n Print Entries \u2013 Newspaper and Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n Broadcast Entries \u2013 Radio and Television<\/strong><\/p>\n Photographic Entries<\/strong><\/p>\n Online Entries<\/strong><\/p>\n Editorial Cartooning<\/strong><\/p>\n Special prize for reporting food security and agriculture<\/strong><\/p>\n A special prize for reporting food security and agriculture has been introduced this year as a part of WSCIJ\u2019s media engagement programme on food security and agriculture in collaboration with Oxfam\u2019s Voices for Food Security. The programme plans to improve media and public awareness on issues surrounding agriculture generally and food security in particular in the country. The prize on its part will serve as an encouragement to reporters who have been dedicated to reporting the issues.<\/p>\n Generally<\/strong><\/p>\n SUBMISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n The submitted package should include:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In the synopsis, the applicant is expected to:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n NOTE<\/strong><\/p>\n Judging Process<\/strong><\/p>\n Only entries received by the deadline will be treated.<\/strong><\/p>\n Deadline for Submission of Entries: 4PM Tuesday 24 October, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Kindly send entries to:<\/strong> For more information, reach us through our email,wscij@wscij.orgor phone, [+234]-908-2515-5179<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism is calling for applications for the 12th edition of Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Nigerian journalists or team of journalists, full or…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
\nThe main criterion for eligibility is that the work (single work or single-subject serial) must involve reporting on public, and or corporate corruption, human rights violation, or on the failure of regulatory agencies. The story should reflect a high quality of investigation in terms of newsworthiness, capacity to expose or prevent clandestine activities, corruption in the public domain, an understanding of human rights implications enhanced by the quality of delivery\/presentation\/writing. Such works should have been first published or broadcast in a Nigerian media between 4 October 2016 and 3 October 2017.<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe Centre Coordinator<\/strong>
\n18A, Abiodun Sobajo Street, Off Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.<\/strong><\/p>\n