A PRNigeria reporter, Mohammed Dahiru Lawal, has emerged the Best Fellow in West Africa in the Dubawa/Premium Times Center for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship 2021. Dahiru was announced the winner at the award night which was held at the Millionaire Hall, Corinthia Villa Hotel in Garki, Abuja. The third cohort […]
A PRNigeria reporter, Mohammed Dahiru Lawal, has emerged the Best Fellow in West Africa in the Dubawa/Premium Times Center for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship 2021. Dahiru was announced the winner at the award night which was held at the Millionaire Hall, Corinthia Villa Hotel in Garki, Abuja. The third cohort […]
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The Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), Ayisha Osori, says early education is a potent tool in tackling growing misinformation and disinformation in Nigeria.
Ms Osori, while giving opening remarks at the Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship, said building a questioning attitude in children would imbue in them a culture of seeking truth from early life.
The fellowship, now in its third year, is a brainchild of West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform,
Dubawa, under the auspices of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ).
The lawyer cum communication strategist also said inculcating fact-checking into schools’ curriculum would help children discern the rudiments of truth and spur them to verify every information they come across.
Dubawa to train 26 journalists in fact-checking The Punch
Published 19 May 2021
West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, Dubawa, has concluded plans to induct 26 fellows into its 2021 cohort of fact-checkers to combat misinformation in the sub-region.
Dubawa announced the commencement of its third batch of the yearly fellowship in Abuja.
The third batch, which is the 2021 fellowship, named Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship, in honour of Ghanaian Professor, Kwame Karikari, is supported by the National Endowment for Democracy.
Dubawa Programme Manager, Adedeji Adekunle, said 26 successful applicants, drawn from over 200 applications in Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone would undergo training that would equip them in combating the widespread regime of misinformation in the West African sub-region.
Dubawa Kick-starts 2021 Fact-checking Training To Combat Misinformation
Twenty-six successful applicants will undergo a training that will equip them to combat the widespread regime of misinformation aka ‘fake news’ in the West African sub-region.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 19, 2021
West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, Dubawa, has started the induction of twenty-six fellows into its 2021 class of fact-checkers to combat misinformation in the sub-region.
The platform, under the aegis of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, announced the commencement of the yearly fellowship in Abuja on Monday.
Having run for three consecutive years, the 2021 fellowship is christened Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship in honour of Ghanaian Professor, Kwame Karikari.
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The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), a West African media innovation and development organisation, has, through its sub-regional fact-checking project, Dubawa, named its coveted fact-checking and research fellowship after the media advocate and scholar, Professor Kwame Karikari.
The fellowship will, therefore, now be known as the Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship.
Prof. Karikari, a former Director of the School of Communication Studies of the University of Ghana and also former Dean of Communication Studies at the Wisconsin University, is the Founder of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
He is currently the Board Chairman of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL).