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AMDF Celebrates International Day To End Impunity Against Journalists

According to a report by UNESCO close to 930 journalists have been killed in the past 11 years for reporting the news and bringing information to the public. On average,…
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Challenges and opportunities in data journalism

In June, Canada’s Globe and Mail won “Investigation of the Year” honors for a series on why Canadian police dismiss so many sexual-assault cases as “unfounded.” Judges for the2017 Data Journalism Awards praised the “deep…
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Ojo Sola is AMDF Journalist of the Month

Ojo Sola Olusegun was born some 35 years ago and hails from Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State, Southwest Nigeria. He is a Higher National Diploma graduate of Mass…
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Conflict with the Earth: When Mother Nature fights back

By Omeiza Balogun When 64 years old, Mr. Iyasele Emonyon of Idunwele-Ewu, Esan Central Local Government Area in Edo State, Nigeria, returned home at about 3:00pm, 22nd May, 2017, his…
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4 Tips for Staying Safe when Covering Disaster or Unrest

A week after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that rocked central Nepal in 2015, Prakash Mahat, a cameraman with Nepal TV News, was covering both the aftereffects of the earthquake and…
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South Africa: Why Media Freedom Remains Fragile in South Africa

By Franz Krüger, University of the Witwatersrand Four decades after the Black Wednesday crackdown on the media and the black consciousness movement, South Africa is a different country. Freedom of…
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AMDF/NextMerge unveil an online application ‘Scoopnews’

Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) in collaboration with NextMerge unveiled an online application for journalists and news sources today at the NUJ Secretariat Kaduna state chapter. The application is one…
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Africa Check seeks deputy editor and health researcher/ community manager [Nigeria]

Experienced journalists interested in fact-checking can apply for one of these positions, with the option of working from Lagos or Abuja. Africa Check, a project of the AFP Foundation, is hiring a deputy editor and…
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AMDF/NEXTMERGE TO UNVEIL ONLINE ‘APP’ FOR JOURNALISTS

The Africa Media Development Foundation in collaboration with NextMerge is set to unveil an online app for journalist and news sources. The Application “ScoopNews”, which is one of the first…
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Reminder: Call For Application: 2017 Wole Soyinka Award For Investigative Reporting

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism is calling for applications for the 12th edition of Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Nigerian journalists or team of journalists, full or…
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