The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center is now accepting entries for its fellowships programme from journalists, writers and others working on book projects. The Center looks for top-quality writing from academics as well as from creative writers and independent scholars. Visual artists whose projects require extensive use of Library …

The Whickers is accepting applications for an original radio or audio documentary for the Radio and Audio Funding Award (RAFA) from the emerging audio producer based anywhere in the world to produce an original radio or audio documentary. The RAFA is awarded annually to an emerging audio producer based anywhere …

Media organisations from around the world have been invited to nominate journalists who change the world for the better with their publications for the annual Fetisov Journalism Awards. The Fetisov Journalism Awards winners share the biggest monetary prize in the history of journalism and the entire world comes to know …

Megacities Shortdocsinvites applications for participation in the 6th edition of the MegaCities-ShortDocs Citizen Film Festival, a festival of short documentary-films that highlight initiatives which seek to bring effective solutions to MegaCities’ challenges and inspire people to take actions to improve the life of MegaCitizens in their MegaCity. The international contest is …

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is calling for applications from democracy activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and scholars from around the world for the annual Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Programme. Fellows will have the opportunity to spend five months in residence at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in Washington, …

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), Ms Michelle Bachelet, has called on States and businesses to ensure that new technologies, including facial recognition and the so-called ‘less-lethal weapons,’ are developed and used in ways that do not disrupt and prevent people’s ability to exercise their fundamental rights to …

Media experts including the chief executives of some media organizations have called for radical fiscal reforms, including steady power supply, bailouts in form of grants and soft loans, and other basic social amenities, to salvage the Nigerian media from the negative impact of the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Media Rights …

The Nigerian Breweries (NB) Plc, has donated of some food items to the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Chapter, to reduce the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on them.  Presenting the items at the NUJ Press Centre, Iyaganku, Ibadan, the Corporate Affairs Manager, West Africa, Mr. Tayo …

Matthew Onwuasoanya, a lawyer and journalist with the Anambra Newspapers and Publishing Corporation (ANPC), publishers of National Light and Sports Light newspapers, was kidnapped by armed men dressed in security outfit at his residence in  Awka, Anambra State, in the early hours of May 30, 2020. An eyewitness said the …

Mr Cletus Opukeme, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Daily Watch has gone into hiding over alleged threats to his life for a news story he published that exposed fraud in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) running into billions of naira. The issue is reported to have attracted the attention of …