The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative
Journalism (WSCIJ) has called for entries
for the 7th edition of the Award for
Investigative Reporting. The award is open to professional Nigerian
journalist or team of journalists, full-time or
freelancers, who have produced a news
story published between 26 October 2011
and 3 October 2012 targeted at and
received by a Nigerian audience. The award will reward and honour the
works of outstanding journalists whose news
stories expose corruption, regulatory
failures and human rights abuses in public
and private spheres of the country in the
print, radio, television, photo, online, climate change, local government, sports, health
and editorial cartooning categories. The sports and health categories are new
categories included which focus on
sustainable development, the wellbeing of
the country and its future in relation with
international realities. Meanwhile the editorial cartooning
category aligns with the global
acknowledgements of cartoon as a veritable
tool of investigative journalism and in
response to agitations from journalists in this
genre. Print entries should be an original and
photocopy while broadcast transcripts must
be written in English language. Audio
entries should be sent in Audio CD format,
with accompanying script; while video
entries on VCD. The photo entries must be well captioned in
English with the original photo, original
copy of the published work and photocopy.
While the editorial cartooning entries must
include original copy of the published work
with photocopy; and URL for online entries. The entries will be scored by a judges'
board comprising persons of integrity who
are in the media and related professions. The entries should include a brief synopsis
of not more than 400 words and sent to: The
Centre Co-ordinator, WSCIJ, 55 Awolowo
Way, Ikeja, Lagos. The deadline for entries submission is
October 25, 2012.

Th 40 laptop crew must have dropped their own entries with GEJ, btw I don't think they would be paid that much cos they've been silent this past few days.