Soyinka Centre Set To Confer Investigative Journalism Awards

Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism has fixed the conferment of the 2024 investigative journalism awards for December 9, 2024.
According to a notice to its partners, the Executive Director of the Centre, Motunrayo Alaka, the award ceremony will take place at Muson Centre, Lagos at 5pm.
Alaka said, “The award rewards, promotes and encourages best practices in journalism works from the print, radio, television, photo, online, and editorial cartoon broad categories on themes ranging from regulatory failures, corruption in the public and corporate spheres, and human rights abuses in Nigeria.”
She said since the inception of the awards in 2005, 119 finalists had emerged and 13 journalists have been honoured as Investigative Journalist of the Year.
“Also, 29 Nigerians have been awarded the honorary awards (Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence and Anti-corruption Defender Award) for their contributions to the media profession and stance against corruption,” she added.
The WSCIJ director added that the award ceremony would hold on the same day as the World Anti-Corruption Day and the eve of Human Rights Day, “to acknowledge best practices in investigative journalism and their import for democracy.”
On the day before, WSCIJ would host the 4th Amplify In-depth Media (AIM) Conference with the theme, ‘Media credibility, investigative reporting, and artificial intelligence.’
Alaka said the AIM Conference, now in its fourth edition, will provide the platform for knowledge sharing and discussions on the importance of ethical oversight in deploying AI tools transparently and responsibly, preserving journalistic integrity and maintaining audience trust.
“The Conference, this year, is part of activities under WSCIJ’s Civic Space Guard programme tagged ‘Leveraging the power of the media to fortify the civic space and tackle malinformation’ in partnership with the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), with support from the Netherlands Embassy,” she added.