10th Wole Soyinka Award For Investigative Reporting Calls For Entries

Press Statement

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ)
invites entries from Nigerian reporters for the 10th Wole Soyinka
Award for Investigative Reporting from the 4th of October 2015. The
award programme, true to its tradition, will honour works that
involve reporting on public and or corporate corruption, human
rights abuses or on the failure of regulatory agencies.
This year, the award plans to reward outstanding reporters from
print, radio, television, online, photography and editorial cartoon
categories. The submitted stories must have first been published or
broadcast in a Nigerian media between 4th October 2014 and 3rd
October 2015.
In addition to the entry coding system which makes the details of
media house and by-line of entrants anonymous to judges
introduced in 2012, the WSCIJ now converts entries to electronic
format before sending to judges. The electronic entries system is
helping to ease scoring for judges and enable the inclusion of
persons from across Nigeria and abroad to participate in the judging
process.
Entries will be scored by a panel of judges drawn from the media
and related professions who are passionate about investigative
reporting. Over all, judges will be looking for ethical reporting
courage, individual creativity and public benefit.
Interested reporters may visitwww.wscij.org for details of the 2015
award. The deadline for submission of entries is 4pm onFriday, 23
October 2015.

Signed:

Motunrayo Alaka

Centre Coordinator

motunrayo@wscij.org

entries@wscij.org