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Africa Check call for Journalists/Researchers in Johannesburg, South Africa.

by OFA
written by OFA

Application Deadline: June 13th 2016

Africa Check, the continent’s first independent fact-checking website, is seeking an experienced journalist/researcher to join our growing Johannesburg-based team – testing the evidence for claims made on all sides of public debate and the media.

People across Africa make decisions every day based on the best evidence available to them, and often that information is misleading or just plain wrong. Our award-winning work – published on our site and discussed and republished in wider media – reveal the truth behind the claims.

Job description:

Investigating claims about a wide range of topics by politicians and others to hold them to account, using publicly available information to reach a verdict about the accuracy of a statement. Writing it up in an easily understandable way with extreme attention to detail.

The successful candidate must:

  • Have a well-honed nonsense detector,
  • Be politically non-partisan,
  • Have at least a bachelor’s degree in an applicable study field,
  • Be glued to the news like other people are to Facebook,
  • Be able to solve the equivalent of a maths equation (a public claim in our case) with academic studies, expert opinion and logic,
  • Know the difference between a representative survey and an internet poll,
  • Lie awake at night fretting over a possible spelling mistake,
  • Be able to explain to their grandmother what a term like “confidence interval” is,
  • Have grit.

Advantageous:

  • Experience in business and economic journalism,
  • The ability to talk sensibly on television and radio,
  • Fluency in an African language/French,
  • Know Excel back to front.

What we offer:

  • A competitive salary (no, really, although we’re an NGO!),
  • A 13th cheque based on performance,
  • Lots of opportunity for learning and growth,
  • Cake club on Thursdays.

How to apply

Send a CV and cover letter explaining why you would be perfect for the post to [email protected] by close of business on Monday 13 June.

Attach a sample of your writing and suggest a fact in the news that should be checked.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Africa Check call for Journalists/Researchers

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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Property Rights Grant Opportunity for Nigerian Journalists.

by OFA
written by OFA

Application Deadline: March 15th 2016

Land grabs, land disputes, hidden land deals, phony C of O’s, flawed and opaque land registries— all pose a threat to the growth and development of Nigeria, one of Africa’s leading economic engines.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a grant-giving non-profit organization that supports independent global journalism is seeking applications from Nigerian journalists who want to participate in a collaborative reporting project to investigate land and property rights in their home country. The reporting will be published in Nigerian and international news outlets.

The call for this special grant opportunity is now open. Journalists are encouraged to submit their application on why they should be selected for the reporting project

Eligibility:

  • This special grant opportunity is open to all Nigerian journalists, writers, photographers, radio producers or filmmakers, staff journalists, as well as freelancers and media professionals who are seeking to report from their home country.

Selection:

  • The grant recipient will be selected by the Pulitzer Center, in consultation with  African-based partner organizations: Sahara Reporters, Africa Check, Code for Nigeria, and BudgIT.
  • The grant recipient will be paired with mentors from the Pulitzer Center’s partner journalism organizations, who will help the grantee more fully develop the investigative story on land issues.

Selection will be based on the following criteria:

  • The story must take an investigative angle and focus on an under-reported aspect of land and property issues in Nigeria.
  • The proposal must include a data collection/data journalism approach. For example, data mining government documents, digitizing documents related to “off the books” land deals, creating datasets that reveal trends in land deals or tenure insecurity, or using data collected during reporting to create easy and simple to understand infographics.
  • The proposal needs to include a timeline and distribution plan for the story in the Nigerian media.
  • The strength of the proposed topic and the strength of the applicant’s work as demonstrated in their work samples.
  • Pulitzer Center are looking for projects that explore systemic issues related to land and property rights, and that provide an overarching thesis, rather than individual spot-reports from the field.

How to apply for the Property Rights Reporting Grant
Applications include the following:

  • A description of the proposed project, including distribution plan, in no more than 250 words
  • A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs. Travel grants cover hard costs associated with the reporting; please do not include stipends for the applicants. Fixer/translator/driver fees are acceptable.
  • Three samples of published work, either print or broadcast.
  • Three professional references. These can be either contact information, or letters of recommendation. The latter is encouraged when letters from interested producers or editors are available.
  • A copy of your curriculum vitae.

Applications may also include a more detailed description of project but this will be considered as optional supplement only. The most important part of the submission is the 250-word summary.

Apply Now for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Property Rights Reporting Grant

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Property Rights Reporting Grant

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2015 African Fact-Checking Awards for Journalistic Excellence in Africa (€4,000 Euros Cash Prize)

by lanredahunsi
written by lanredahunsi

Application Deadline: 31st August 2015

Are you a reporter for an Africa-based media organisation? Has a report you published or broadcast exposed a claim from a public figure or institution to be misleading or wrong?

The African Fact-Checking Awards are in their second year — the only awards that honour journalism by media based in Africa that exposes misleading claims made by public figures and institutions.

The winners of the awards will be announced at a ceremony to be held in Africa in November.

The awards are operated in partnership with the African Media Initiative, the largest media industry body on the continent. Funding for the prizes has come from the AFP Foundation, the Shuttleworth Foundation and Africa Check.

Eligibility Requirements:

  • To be eligible, the entries must be original pieces of fact-checking journalism first published or broadcast between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015, by a media house based in Africa.
  • The work may be published in print or online, broadcast on the radio or television or published in a blog.
  • The work may have been published or broadcast in any language but, to be eligible for the competition, an accurate translation into either French or English must be made available to the judges.
  • Current staff of the AFP news agency or Africa Check are not eligible for the competition.

Prize:

  • A winner and two runners-up will be selected, and announced at an event in Africa in November.
  • The winner will receive a cash prize of €2000 and the two runners-up a prize of €1000 each.

Selection Criteria

A six-member jury of eminent journalists from Europe and Africa will be formed in June.

All entries sent into the competition before midnight on 31 August 2015 will be sifted to produce a short-list to go to the judges. The entries for the competition will all be judged on the following four criteria.

  • The significance for wider society of the claim investigated
  • How the claim was tested against the available evidence
  • How well the piece presented the evidence for and against the claim
  • The impact that the publication had on public debate on the topic

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the  2015 African Fact-Checking Awards

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