Deadline: 24-Oct-21
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has announced 16th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting to aid the development of an investigative reporting culture in the Nigerian media.
In naming the award after Wole Soyinka, the initiators hoped to bring further attention to Soyinka’s untiring and relentless support for the cause of freedom of expression.
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) rewards, promotes and encourages best practices in journalism works from the print, radio, television, photo, online, editorial cartoon broad categories as well as from other special categories which focus on themes ranging from regulatory failures, corruption in the public and corporate spheres, and human rights abuses in the country.
Categories
- Radio
- Television
- Photography
- Online
- Editorial cartoon
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open to any Nigerian professional reporter or team of reporters (fulltime 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.
Criteria
- The 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 presentation.
- Such works should have been first published or broadcast in a Nigerian media between 4th October 2020 and 3rd October 2021.
For more information, visit https://award.wscij.org/