The Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) Adejumobi Adegbite Fellowship 2025 for early-career journalists. – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: May 26, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) Adejumobi Adegbite Fellowship. The Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) is accepting functions for the Adejumobi Adegbite Fellowship for Young Journalists, a one-year program honoring the reminiscence of the late journalist and U.S. Consulate Lagos’ Information Specialist, who handed away in July 2023.

With assist from the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, the fellowship is open to early-career journalists with an curiosity in investigative, multimedia, and data-driven reporting.

Eligibility Requirements

• The fellowship is open solely to rising Nigerian journalists with lower than 5 years work expertise. Interns, freelance journalists, part-time and full-time media professionals are eligible.
• This is a completely Nigerian fellowship. Applicants have to be lively working journalists who’re completely resident in Nigeria and will not be alumni or prior individuals of any U.S. authorities change packages.
• Each journalist should submit two investigative tales revealed within the 24 months previous the submission deadline.
• Entries that embrace options, analyses, and op-eds will likely be disqualified.
• Short-listed candidates have to be out there to take part within the opening and shutting classes in Lagos, and two on-line classes in between.

Benefits

• The 10 profitable fellows will obtain cell journalism instruments, steering, and mentorship to provide impactful public curiosity tales.

How to Apply

Applicants are to electronic mail the next to [email protected] on or earlier than Monday, May 26, 2025:

• Two investigative tales revealed within the 24 months previous the submission deadline.
• A private assertion of no more than 1000 phrases analyzing what evokes you as a journalist, and the way this fellowship might help you advance your profession targets.
• A curriculum vitae.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the FIJ Adejumobi Adegbite Fellowship