Female Reporters’ Leadership Fellowship Program for Female Nigerian Journalists

Deadline: 4 June 2019

The Report Women is seeking applications for its Female Reporters’ Leadership Fellowship programme with the aim of empowering female reporters with the skills, finesse, support and tools to take bold steps that help position them for the highest leadership roles in their media houses.

In addition to the overall objectives, the programme also mobilises a network of female journalists, who are oriented for leadership. In addition, it creates a train-the-trainer team who better appreciate the importance of mainstreaming gender in news. The exposure will entail a four-day training, three-month mentorship, two share-fairs and fellowship assignments.

The FRLP is a build up on the Report Women programme of the WSCIJ, which was designed to focus on major issues of access and abuse as they affect girls and women in Nigeria and implemented in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Embassy.

Through the Report Women project, which commenced in 2014, WSCIJ has trained over eighty reporters across the country and commissioned thirty-one stories to improve the quantum and quality of reportage of girls and women issues in Nigeria. It has also published a documentary, titled “Report Women: Untold stories of girls and women in Nigeria” which is available for viewing online, among other activities.

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) invites applications from female Nigerian professional journalists (fulltime or freelancer) who have a passion for ethical journalism, are committed to excellent professional media practice, possess great ideas to lead dynamic improvements on the practice, and have at least three years’ experience in the newsroom, for the 2019 Female Reporters’ Leadership Fellowship.

Eligibility Criteria