Welcome to the Wole Soyinka Award For Investigative Reporting

The Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Award recognizes best practices in the art of investigative human rights reporting in Nigerian journalism. It will honour, annually, the works of Nigerian reporters in print, broadcast, photography and online-journalism which help reflect the promotion and respect for human rights as a substantive value in the development of Nigerian democracy. Read more »

The Award is open to any Nigerian professional journalist or team of journalists (full time professional or freelancers).

The main criterion for eligibility is that the investigation (single work or single-subject serial) involves reporting on public or corporate corruption, and/or human rights violations. Such works must have been first published or broadcast in a Nigerian media within the past one year.

Eligibility

Categories

Criteria

Broadcast Entries

Submission Letter

A One Day Mini-Conference Supported by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

The 2nd edition of WSIRA at Musa Yar' Ardua Center, Abuja

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Photo Journalilsm

Broadcast

Online Journalism

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