Journalists
can now submit entries for the 2013 Wole Soyinka Award for
Investigative Reporting. The Award is open to professional Nigerian
journalist or team of journalists, whether full-time or freelancing, who have
produced a news story published between 4 October 2012 and 3 October 2013
primarily targeted at and received by a Nigerian audience.
Hosts
of the award programme, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism
had in 2012 introduced an entry coding system that makes the details of media
house and by-line of entrants anonymous to judges in a bid to further
strengthen the judging process and increase the credibility of the award
programme.
Winners
of the 2012 award: Idris Akinbajo of Premium Times; Olatunji Obasa of The
Punch; Seun Akioye formerly with The Compass and now with The Nation; Bassey
Asukwo of Bussiness Day; Lucas Olumuyiwa of Tell Magazine; and Tobore Ovuorie
formally of National Mirror and now with Premium Times, will attend the Power Conference
– an international gathering of investigative journalists, holding at the
University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa between October 28
and 30 2013 as part of their award prize.
This
edition, the award will reward and honour the works of outstanding Nigerian
journalists whose news stories expose corruption, regulatory failures and human
rights abuses in public and private spheres of the country in the print, radio,
television, photo, online, climate change, local government, sports, health and
editorial cartoon categories.
The
entries will be scored by a judges’ board comprising persons of integrity who
are in the media and related professions.
The
deadline for submission of entries is Friday 25 October 2013.
Click
here: Criteria for eligibility
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ABOUT THE AWARD
ABOUT THE AWARD
The
Wole
Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting was first held in October,
2005 to encourage the development of an investigative tradition in the Nigerian
media through rigorous scrutiny of human rights violations, regulatory failures
and corruption in the public and corporate departments of the nation’s life.
The programme has been successfully run for eight years and has produced 52
merit finalists and 10 honorary awardees. The winners are called ‘Soyinka
Laureates’.
ABOUT WSCIJ
ABOUT WSCIJ
The
WOLE
SOYINKA CENTRE FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM (WSCIJ) is a
not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation with social justice programmes
aimed at exposing corruption, regulatory failures and human rights abuses with
the tool of investigative journalism. Initially known as the Wole Soyinka
Investigative Reporting Award (WSIRA), the change in name became necessary in
2008 to reflect the intentions of the coordinators to embrace a more robust
line of activities that have greater capacity for engendering the right values
of investigative journalism in the Nigerian media.
The
Centre is named after Professor Wole Soyinka in recognition of his life-long
work in support of the freedom of expression, freedom to hold opinion, and freedom
to impart them without fear or favour and without hindrance or interference.
Signed:
Motunrayo Alaka
Motunrayo Alaka
Centre
Coordinator
Contact
Details:
08028302436
@WSoyinkaCentre
www.wscij.org
@WSoyinkaCentre
www.wscij.org
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