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Osoba to chair, Okunna, Deelen, Salihu, McKay, Anaba, Olowe to speak as WSCIJ celebrates 10th Report Women anniversary with public presentation of female experts source guide

Olusegun Osoba, veteran journalist and former governor of Ogun State, will chair the 10th anniversary of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Report Women! Programme and public presentation of the ‘Report Women! Experts’ source guide website, scheduled for Thursday, 3 October 2024, at the Metropolitan Club, Victoria Island, Lagos, by 10am. The event […]

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WSCIJ set to launch female experts source guide to mark Report Women! at ten

WSCIJ set to launch female experts source guide to mark Report Women! at ten

As part of the activities marking the 10th anniversary of the Report Women! Programme, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) will publicly present its female experts source guide website, ‘Report Women! Experts’, on Thursday, 3 October 2024, at the Metropolitan Club, Victoria Island, Lagos, by 10am. The Report Women! Experts source guide was

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WSCIJ visits Vanguard, urges intentional inclusion of women as leaders of newsroom and news

WSCIJ visits Vanguard, urges intentional inclusion of women as leaders of newsroom and news

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) visited Vanguard Newspaper’s Head Office in Lagos on Thursday, 29 August 2024, to advocate for gender parity in newsroom leadership and news, as part of the Report Women! News and Newsrooms House-to-House engagement. The session, moderated by Elizabeth Osayande, journalist at Vanguard, was to share findings from

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WSCIJ lauds TVC Communications, calls for increased parity in newsroom leadership and news

WSCIJ lauds TVC Communications, calls for increased parity in newsroom leadership and news

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has commended TVC Communications for ensuring gender parity within its organisation while calling for intentionality towards achieving full parity in newsroom leadership and news. The commendation came during WSCIJ’s visit to TVC Communications Head Office in Lagos as part of its Report Women! News and Newsrooms House-to-House

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Channels Television reaffirms commitment to gender parity in newsroom during WSCIJ visit

Channels Television reaffirms commitment to gender parity in newsroom during WSCIJ visit

The management of Channels Television has reaffirmed its commitment to gender parity in the leadership of newsroom and news. Kingsley Uranta, General Manager, Channels Academy; and Ambrose Okoh, General Manager, News and Current Affairs, stated this during the House-to-House visit of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to its headquarters in Lagos, on

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WSCIJ takes Report Women! House-to-House initiative to The Guardian

WSCIJ takes Report Women! -House-to-House initiative to The Guardian, charges media on gender parity in newsroom and news leadership

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and its faculty visited The Guardian Newspaper Headquarters in Lagos, on Monday, 12 August 2024, for the former’s Report Women! News and Newsrooms House-to-House engagement on leadership status of women. The WSCIJ challenged the management and staff of the newspaper to prioritise parity between women and men

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Nine Report Women fellows to execute story, leadership projects courtesy of WSCIJ

Nine Report Women fellows to execute story, leadership projects courtesy of WSCIJ

Nine fellows of the Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) have been selected by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to carry out story and leadership projects. This support, exclusive to the Report Women! Fellows, is under the Champion Building activity of the Report Women! News and Newsroom Engagement project with the

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2023 Report Women Fellowship: WSCIJ welcomes twelve new Fellows; honours Oladunjoye, Ayeku, Ogunrinde with individual awards

The Report Women Network (REWON) of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) welcomed 12 new members to its fold following the induction and award ceremony for the 2023 Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) Fellows on Monday, 4 September 2022 in Lagos. The inductees were Zubaida Baba Ibrahim – HumAngle Media, Abuja; Ijeoma

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12 female reporters trained to champion the cause of women as leaders of newsrooms and news

12 female reporters from different news media organisations, completed a first three-day training to build their capacity as champions of the newsroom and news to become fellows of the 2023 Champion Building edition of the Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) from Monday 3 to Wednesday 5

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PRESS RELEASE: WSCIJ trains 12 female reporters as champions for leadership of women in newsrooms and experts in the news

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has selected twelve female journalists  for the champion building edition of its 2023 Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme (FRLP) fellowship. This fifth edition of the fellowship, which will commence with a three-day residential training from Monday 3rd to Wednesday 5th April in Lagos, will build the capacities of the

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2023 Report Women Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) fellowship, champion building edition, application call opens!

Nigerian Female journalists (full-time or freelance) with a minimum of three years of experience may apply for the 2023 Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) fellowship champion building edition, from Wednesday 15 to Friday 3 March 2023. This opportunity, a collaboration between the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and the Bill & Melinda Gates

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Report Women! News and Newsroom Champion Building: Student journalists equipped with sustainable approaches to reporting gender issue

A 2021 fellow of the ReportWomen! Female Reporters Leadership Programme, Osaruonamen Ibizugbe, has equipped the next generation of storytellers with sustainable approaches to reporting gender issues focusing on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). She did as her leadership project under the Report Women! News and Newsroom Engagement Champion Building. The training workshop took place virtually as the

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21 female reporters inducted, rewarded and charged on leadership in the media

21 female reporters across media organisations in Nigeria were inducted as fellows of the Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on Thursday 9 June 2022 in Lagos. The 21 reporters were inducted after they participated in months of rigorous training and mentorship, and implemented story

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WSCIJ, others task Nigerians on creating safe places for women and girls

WSCIJ, others task Nigerians on creating safe places for women and girls

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), alongside other media practitioners and Civil Society Organisations tasked Nigerians on creating safe places for women and girls during the ReportWomen! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) Share-Fair and Tweet Conference held in Lagos on 10th and 11th September 2019. The programme opened on 10th September with the

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Experts urge media managers to create enabling environment for women in the newsroom

Experts urge media managers to create enabling environment for women in the newsroom

Experts have urged media managers to create an enabling environment for women in the newsroom. The call was made at the last leg of the house-to-house visit by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to select media houses in Lagos. The visit which took place as a chat on gender policy and practices

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WSCIJ Coordinator selected for top American fellowship

The Coordinator of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka, has been selected for the prestigious John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University in California, United States. Mrs Alaka is one of seven fellows from Africa, Europe and South America selected into the 2019- 2020 class of the programme, starting September

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#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS: Five years too long for Chibok girls return and others in captivity

The plight of girls and women in Nigeria and Africa at large

With nearly half of the world’s population, women and girls are daily faced with a myriad of issues that hampers advancement and development of several nations especially in Africa. Figures from the human development index provides insights that countries that pay attention to issues affecting the female gender are ranked at the top and vice

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#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS: Five years too long for Chibok girls return and others in captivity

#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS: Five years too long for Chibok girls return and others in captivity

On the night of April 14, 2014, two hundred and seventy-six (276) female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. Responsibility for the kidnappings was claimed by Boko Haram, an extremist terrorist organisation based in north-eastern Nigeria. Sunday, April 14th 2019 marks 5 years since

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Female journalists, media managers challenged to mainstream gender in the newsroom

Female journalists, media managers challenged to mainstream gender in the newsroom

Female journalists and media managers have been challenged to mainstream gender in the newsroom. The challenge came at the second leg of the house-to-house visit by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to some media houses in Abuja as part of the Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP). The visit which took

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Report Women Network inaugurated, moves to change the face of leadership in media

Report Women Network inaugurated, moves to change the face of leadership in media

Report Women Network, the alumni body of the Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme (FRLP) Fellowship programme has been inaugurated. The fourteen fellows produced in the 2017 edition of the initiative, faculty members and partners, on Friday, 5 October 2018, established the body. According to the 2017 Fellows, the Report Women Networkwould help sustain the

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