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The NABJ Global Journalism Task Force exists to increase and improve black journalists’ coverage of other countries as well as the African Diaspora by strengthening resources, maintaining an international sourcebook and fostering the idea that reporters need not be foreign correspondents to cover news in the world’s 195 countries. The task force recognizes groundbreaking work by African journalists with the annual Percy Qoboza Award and provides opportunities for foreign coverage through the Ethel Payne Fellowship.
Category Archives: AFRICA
International Women’s Media Foundation organizes trip to South Sudan
As part of its African Great Lakes Reporting Initiative, the IWMF will continue to lead groups of women journalists to the Central African Republic, DRC, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda between 2015-2018. By 2019, more than 250 women journalists … Continue reading
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IJP offer a bursary to up to six young Southern African Journalists
International Journalists’ Programmes (IJP) offer a bursary to up to six young Southern African (SADC-Member States: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe + Kenia) … Continue reading
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Post Ebola Reporting Workshop
Journalists who are fluent in English and have at least one year of experience can apply to attend this free training. The Thomson Reuters Foundation is organizing the workshop “Reporting after the epidemic” to help journalists investigate what happened after the Ebola outbreak. The course will take … Continue reading
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Call for Entries: The Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling
http://www.icfj.org/our-work/call-entries-michael-elliott-award-excellence-african-storytelling The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in collaboration with ONE and the Elliott family seek entries for the inaugural 2017 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling. Mike served as a distinguished editor at The Economist, Newsweek … Continue reading
Internews seeks program director
The Project Director will be responsible for overseeing the overall program implementation and management of an anticipated US Department of State funded “Support for Peaceful Elections in Kenya”, a media and advocacy program aiming to mitigate triggers for election violence … Continue reading
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International Women’s Media Foundation organizes trip to Tanzania, Rwanda
The IWMF is now accepting applications for two Reporting Fellowships, set to take place in February 2017. As part of the African Great Lakes Reporting Initiative, one group of six journalists will report on rural and economic development from Mwanza, … Continue reading
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Fellowship funds reporting on Sub-Saharan Africa
The Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship (AEJF) is a fellowship opportunity aimed at enabling deep, critical reporting on energy poverty globally. We are looking for four reporters who want to tell stories that are deeply rooted in people’s lived experiences … Continue reading
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Deadline approaching: Ruth First Fellowship South Africa
Journalists, writers, researchers, filmmakers and photographers can apply for this fellowship. The University of Witwatersrand’s Journalism Department offers the Ruth First Fellowship to support a new generation of public intellectuals to pursue an in-depth project. This year’s topic is “violence and rage” in … Continue reading
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impactAFRICA launches data-driven storytelling contest
Journalists who report on water and sanitation issues in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania or Zambia can win a study trip to major newsrooms in the United States. The impactAFRICA initiative from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Code for Africa will select three journalists to … Continue reading
CNN seeks entries for journalism contest
African print, broadcast and online journalists can apply for an award. The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Competition highlights journalism’s role in Africa’s development and honors journalistic talent across all media disciplines. Journalists can submit their work in 14 categories. Winners … Continue reading