This year, 2023 has been a good one for us as we celebrate milestones some of our project beneficiaries had achieved
Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals in 2023 ran 3 workshops in Zimbabwe with a total number of 58 participants in attendance (42 females and 16 males) A total of 12 resource persons were used for that project (9 of these were female resource persons and 3 males).
In 2023, AFYMP ran 2 projects/workshops for early career journalists and broadcasters in Uganda. Total number of participants/attendance for the two training sessions were 28(19 females and 9 males). 8 Resource persons were engaged for these two projects with 7 females and 1 male.
Another project ran was “Let us talk about Sustainable journalism” , a an introductory to media sustainability.
AFYMP organized and reached 120 mass communications students through its media clinic programme. One resource person was used, about 80 of the participants in attendance were females while 40 were males.
2023 also offered the opportunity for AFYMP to run a pilot Disability and Inclusion reporting for newsrooms. We had 9 attendees from two different newsrooms in attendance. 7 were females and 2 were males.
Our specialized National campus journalism outreaches/workshops “Reporting for Impact” project engaged four universities and one Polytechnic. These include University of Ibadan, Osun state University, Ladoke Akintola University Ogbomoso, University of Benin and The Press Council, The Polytechnic Ibadan.
Total number of participants in attendance were 125 campus journalists in these five schools. For this specialized outreaches, a total of 11 resource persons were engaged, four were females and 7 males.
AMCAF 2023
Africa Media Come Alive conference, which is AFYMP’s major yearly platform for raising ideas, issues and conversation within the media industry also held. AMCAF as it is named always provides an avenue for final induction of fellows who participated in our organization’s four strategic fellowships.
The theme of this year’s programme was: ‘The future of African Journalism: Content, Policy and business viability’. In all seven (including debate session judges) resource persons were engaged: 2 males and tw0 females which include Keynote address, panel session.
As usual, the annual intervarsity debate which is part of the ceremony was included. This year we had Lagos state university, Nigeria Institute of Journalism, Babcock University, Caleb university as well as Mountain Top University as participating schools. Mountain Top University came first; Lagos state university came second while Babcock University took third position.
Total number of attendees at this event was 120 with about 80 females and 40 males. Not to forget, AFYMP also gave out its award: Most Valuable Professional’s award to 3 outstanding media professionals who had stood out. This year, unlike 2022, the three awardees were females.
Aside from the above, AFYMP’s four strategic fellowships, which always run for about 6 months, were held. This process include call for application, selection, training, mentoring, story publishing by fellow) y
Four media fellowships‘ Impact
-Media entrepreneurship fellowship, 30 participants. 11 males 19 females. Resources persons used were 19(11 males, 8females)
Women in journalism fellowship-20 fellows, all females, resources persons used were 10: 8 females, 2 males
Disability and inclusion fellowship– 32 fellows (12 females, 20 males) resource persons used- 12(6 females, 6 males) 3 resource persons were persons with disabilities
Campus Journalism fellowship– 28 fellows (14 males, 14 females) resource persons 8 resource person (4 males, 4 females)
African Change Narrative Storytellers Fellowship
For the first time and with support from Africa No Filter, we have kickstarted this fellowship which aims to promote responsible, positive stories publishing about Africa and Africans.
The fellowship runs for 6 months from November 2023 to April 2024. 60 fellows, 30 males and 30 females (majorly Africans- who are early career journalists, broadcasters and storytellers) from across African countries had been selected through a rigorous application process.. 12 resource persons -6 males and 6 females across Africa who are experts in ethical storytelling, responsible journalism, broadcasting, editing will be involved with other volunteers as well as in house staff.
Nigeria Grassroot News and media Visibility
Nigeria Grassroot news– our organization’s newspaper which focuses on under reported issues around accountability, gender, human rights especially that of the marginalized voices at the sub national levels encourages and mandated every of our fellowship participant to publish two stories each throughout their mentoring and fellowship session. This in addition to trained staff members/volunteers who report on issues.
In 2023, our newspaper platform published 96 in depth stories which cut across Investigative, human angle, feature and community news related to Persons with disabilities, women. Education, environment, media entrepreneurship, policy, governance etc
Three major impact stories of the newspaper are:
1- 8 months after Nigeria Grassroot news report, Anifowoshe ikeja breathes relief
2- 8 Months after Nigeria Grassroot News report, Lagos governor replaces LASODA GM
3- 7 years ‘later, Ogoni land breathes relief
Our strategic media relations and visibility has seen our corporate views, position, guest expert interviews, events covered by frontline media houses reach over 200 million people globally. These media include premium print, radio stations, television stations and online platforms.
second layer impact
Two fellows became President/Editor-in-Chief as well as General Secretary/Broadcast editor in their university’s Newspaper
The team –www.afymp.org is glad to be associated with the progress being made by Salaudeen Abdullah and Akintulubo Precious our 2023 Campus Journalism fellow and 2022 Media entrepreneurship fellow who are President & General Secretary of their University’s Newspaper. The impact and support of #Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and MacArthur Foundation is huge here. Early career journalists across Africa need to be equipped. It is time for other funding Agencies to support this goal.
Mary Joseph, one of our 2022 media Entrepreneurship fellows won Most promising Producer Award
2023 Women in Journalism fellow won Journalists of the year Award
Confidence Biebara,, one of our 2023 Women of journalism Fellows won Journalist of the year’s (website Category) organized by Trendsetters Award
InSightMedia Editor-in-Chief and platforms win Community Impact reporting award
Jare Tiamiyu, Editor-in-Chief and His Platform won Community reporting Impact award for a story he did.
Violet Ikong, Women in Journalism fellow 2023 won 2nd runner up in BugIT Active Citizen report(Solution Journalism category)
Tijani AbdulKabeer, 2022 Media Entrepreneurship fellow won Social Voices health reporting story worth $2500
AbdulRahman Adebayo, 2022 Campus Journalism fellow won Best Investigative Journalist Award
