Press release

Eighteen more reporters have been commissioned under the COVID-19 Reality Check Project designed and implemented by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to expand efforts in ensuring that the COVID-19 pandemic gets more reported by the media in Nigeria. This brings the number of reporters engaged on the project across media platforms to […]

To expand efforts in ensuring that the COVID-19 pandemic gets more reported by the media in Nigeria by examining government interventions and promises in relation to the realities on the ground, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has commissioned a second set of reporters under its COVID-19 Reality Check Project. The project examines

With journalists risking their lives to make information available to the public during the coronavirus pandemic, experts have agreed on the need for journalists to be ethical in reporting the humanitarian crisis. The experts—Motunrayo Alaka, Executive Director/CEO, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ); Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Collaborative Investigative

To contribute to efforts to ensure the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its impacts gets well reported, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has started the ‘COVID-19 Reality Check’ project. The COVID-19 Reality Check project will examine government interventions and promises in relation to the realities on ground in terms of social welfare, water and

The Coordinator of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka, has joined other journalists and media practitioners for the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University in California, United States. Motunrayo Alaka was one of the seven fellows from Africa, Europe and South America named in April for the 2019- 2020

Attention was again drawn to the need to drive impact through fact-based reporting in Nigerian newsrooms as the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) held the second edition of its ‘Time-out with Journalists’ on Thursday, 29 August 2019 at the centre’s office in Ikeja, Lagos. ‘Time-out with Journalists’ is an off-work arrangement aimed at