WSCIJ Report Women Female Reporters’ Leadership Program 2021 [Nigerians Only]

WSCIJ Report Women Female Reporters’ Leadership Program 2021 [Nigerians Only]

Deadline: May 28, 2021(11.00pm WAT)

The Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) in collaboration with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) opens application submission for its Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Program (FRLP) Fellowship 2021.

This year, the fellowship will focus on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and Criminal Justice.

The choice of their focus area is to increase the quality and quantum of stories on girls and women issues by creating a strong community of female reporters with leadership prowess who can put conversations on various forms of violence against girl and women and criminal justice on the front burner.

The Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Program is an initiative of the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) that started in 2014.

The Report Women program seeks to intentionally increase the quality and quantity of reports about girls and women in the news room.

The Fellowship also seeks to equip female reporters with leadership skills and position them to take opportunities to lead, provide capacity development for advanced nuanced reporting and create a vibrant cohort of female practitioners who can mainstream girls and women in news reporting.

ELIGIBILITY

Female journalists with passion for leadership, ethics and social justice
Proven record of accomplishments in journalism
An interest in reporting violence against girls and women and criminal justice
Demonstrated ability to influence change
Willingness to learn (from faculty, peers and mentors) and share knowledge
Energetic, positive attitude with strong social skills
A commitment to apply leadership skills and training to benefit self, organisation and society.
Professional full time or freelance female reporters in Nigeria, with a minimum of three years’ experience are eligible to apply.

BENEFITS

The 2021 FRLP fellowship exposure will entail the following:

Four-day immersion training on leadership, SGBV, criminal justice and other girls and women issues
Six-month mentoring
Implementation of leadership and story projects on SGBV and criminal justice
Share-fair
Fellowship award and induction into the most supportive group of female reporters in the world.

APPLICATION

WSCIJ strongly encourages female journalists who live outside major cities and those living with disabilities to apply.

Application closes on Friday 28 May 2021 by 11.00pm West Africa Time (WAT).

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