{"id":5682,"date":"2019-10-23T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:46:57","slug":"25-entries-for-2019-amdf-journalist-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2019\/10\/23\/25-entries-for-2019-amdf-journalist-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Entries for 2019 AMDF Journalist of The Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has received 25 entries from Nigerian Journalists for its 2019 AMDF Journalist of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>The Award which is the 3rd edition, was introduced in 2016 to honour journalism works that are professionally and ethically written by prospective Awardees. It was initially a closed process, until this year; AMDF changed the approach and announced call for entries from Nigerian Journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The window for 2019 submission of entries was 1<sup>st<\/sup> \u2013 30<sup>th<\/sup> September.<\/p>\n<p>The 25 works collated for the 2019 are currently being assessed by a panel of 5 media experts selected from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Panel of Judges include;<\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Joseph Edegbo, Managing Editor, Africa Prime News, Kaduna, Nigeria \u2013 Chair of the Panel<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mrs. Sheba Tayo-Garbson, HOD Mass Comm, Fed Poly Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mrs. Miriam Menkiti, former Deputy Director News, FRCN\/General Manager Radio Nigeria Purity FM Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Andrew Fadason, Former Editor, New Nigerian Weekly, Kaduna, Nigeria<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Bolaji Adepegba, Veteran Award-Winning Journalist, Media &amp; Communications Specialist, Lagos, Nigeria<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Award will be presented at the 2019 African Conference on Development Journalism (#ACDJ 2019) slated for 10<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 12<sup>th<\/sup> December 2019 in Kaduna, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Past winners of the Award were Christiana Alabi of Daily Trust Newspapers in 2016, and Ibrahima Yakubu of Deutsche Welle Radio in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() &#038;&#038; current_user_can( &#8216;administrator&#8217; ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() &#038;&#038; current_user_can( &#8216;administrator&#8217; ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has received 25 entries from Nigerian Journalists for its 2019 AMDF Journalist of the Year Award. The Award which is the 3rd edition, was introduced&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2019\/10\/23\/25-entries-for-2019-amdf-journalist-of-the-year-award\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,9,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-opportunity","category-press-release-communique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12857,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/12857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}