The 2023 Wole Soyinka Award for Nigeria Investigative Reporting Journalists

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is delighted to report that journalists may submit their entries for the 18th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting (WSAIR) from Wednesday 4 October to Tuesday 24 October 2023 by 4pm. The award invites entries from Nigerian reporters, individuals or teams and full-time or freelancers, who have published stories in the Nigerian news media directly mainly at the Nigerian audience.

This 2023, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) will proceed with its tradition of acknowledging exceptional journalism across print, online, photojournalism, editorial cartooning, television and radio genres that investigates public and corporate corruption, exposes human rights violations, and highlights regulatory abuses in Nigeria. The stories must be newsworthy, investigative, expose or prevent clandestine activities and corruption in the public and private domain and promote human rights.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

This 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 major criterion for eligibility is that the work (single work or single-subject serial) must comprise 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 fostered by the quality of presentation. Such works should have been first published or broadcasted in a Nigerian media between 4th October 2022 and 3rd October 2023.

The 2023 Wole Soyinka Award for Nigeria Investigative Reporting Journalists

The 2023 Wole Soyinka Award for Nigeria Investigative Reporting Journalists

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

CRITERIA

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