Deadline: 23 October 2015
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is inviting Nigerian Reporters for the 10th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting with a motive to honour works that involve reporting on public and/or corporate corruption, human rights abuses or on the failure of regulatory agencies.
Entries will be scored by a panel of judges drawn from the media and related professions who are passionate about investigative reporting. Over all, judges will be looking for ethical reporting courage, individual creativity and public benefit.
Award Categories
This year, the award plans to reward outstanding reporters from:
- radio
- television
- online
- photography
- editorial cartoon
Eligibility Criteria
- The Award is open to any Nigerian professional reporter or team of reporters (full time or freelancers), 18years and above, 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.
- The main criterion for eligibility is that the work (single work or single-subject serial) involves reporting on public and or corporate corruption, human rights violation, or on the failure of regulatory agencies. The story (whether electronic, print, virtual, visual or graphic) should reflect high quality of investigation in terms of newsworthiness, capacity to expose or prevent corruption in the public domain, an understanding of human rights implications of the story and quality of delivery/presentation/writing.
- An applicant may only submit a maximum of a total of two entries.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should send their entries at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit 10th Wole Soyinka Award.
