Deadline: 28-May-21
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) in collaboration with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has opened applications for its 2021 Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) Fellowship.
This year, the fellowship will focus on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and Criminal Justice. The overall objective of the FRLP Fellowship is to equip female reporters with leadership skills and position them to take opportunities to lead, provide capacity development for advanced nuanced reporting and create a vibrant cohort of female practitioners who can mainstream girls and women in news reporting.
The Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme is an initiative of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) that started in 2014. The Report Women programme seeks to intentionally increase the quality and quantity of reports about girls and women in the news room.
The Female Reporters Leadership Programme part of the initiative commenced in 2017 due to the trend of absence of female persons in the leadership of newsrooms and the need to raise conversations and influence a change in the reality. The fellowship was therefore introduced to equip female journalists with the skills, finesse, support and tools to take bold steps that will help position them for the highest leadership positions in their various media houses as they engage on other fronts for the change they seek.
The programme mobilizes a network of female journalists who are oriented for leadership and a train-the-trainer approach to better appreciate mainstreaming gender issues in news reporting.
The 2021 FRLP fellowship exposure will entail the following:
- Four-day immersion training on leadership, SGBV, criminal justice and other girls and women issues
- Six-month mentoring
- Implementation of leadership and story projects on SGBV and criminal justice
- Share-fair
- Fellowship award and induction into the most supportive group of female reporters in the world.
Eligibility Criteria
- Professional fulltime or freelance female reporters in Nigeria, with a minimum of three years’ experience are eligible to apply.
Application Criteria
- Female journalists with passion for leadership, ethics and social justice
- Proven record of accomplishments in journalism
- An interest in reporting violence against girls and women and criminal justice
- Demonstrated ability to influence change
- Willingness to learn (from faculty, peers and mentors) and share knowledge
- Energetic, positive attitude with strong social skills
- A commitment to apply leadership skills and training to benefit self, organization and society.
For more information, visit https://wscij.org/2021frlp/