Shortly after the 2013 winners
returned from a one-week study tour of the United Kingdom, which spanned from
Monday, September 29, to Friday, October 3, 2014, submission of entries
for the edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting
has started from Saturday, October 4, 2014.
The international exposure the 2013
winners had included classes at the Thomson Foundation as well as visits to
some media organisations in the UK.
The competition,
according to its organizers, is open to
any Nigerian professional reporter or team of reporters full time or
freelancers, who have produced a published story whether through print or
electronic media (television; radio or online) primarily targeted at and
received by a Nigerian audience.
“Entries will be
scored by a panel of judges drawn from the media and related professions who
are passionate about investigative reporting. Towards strengthening the judging
process, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ)
introduced an entry coding system that makes the details of media house and
by-line of entrants anonymous to judges in 2012. This has helped to further
increase the credibility of the award programme.
“The 2014 award will
honour works that expose corruption, human rights abuses and regulatory
failures from the print, broadcast (radio and television); online, local
government, photo, climate change, sports, health, editorial cartoon, and
report women categories.
“The report women
category is introduced this year as a part of WSCIJ’s Report Women! project.
The project is geared at increasing the reportage of girls and women issues in
the Nigerian media. The award will reward the most outstanding story that focuses
on access and or abuse status of the girl or woman. The best work in the
broadcast category will also win the VinMartin Ilo grant for investigative
reporting.
“The deadline for
submission of entries is Friday, October 24, 2014. Interested reporters may
visit www.wscij.org for details of the 2014 award.”
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