Deadline: April 16, 2016
impactAFRICA is offering $500,000 in support for (finalists and winners) pioneering data journalism and innovative reporting that tackles development issues, such as public healthcare, in six African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
The support consists of more than just cash prizes.
impactAFRICA also provide technology assistance in all six countries, as well as one-on-one editorial mentoring, digital skills training, and content syndication services.
The initiative is intended to spur newsroom experimentation and innovative storytelling, while also encouraging more evidence-based public discourse.
impactAFRICA will offer support from Code for Africa’s software labs in all six participating countries, to help finalists build digital/mobile prototypes of their projects.
Finalists will also get access to data analysts and design experts to help them transform their projects into dynamic
interactive multimedia stories.
Finalists will be flown to the pan-African MediaParty in Cape Town in May 2016, for an intensive StoryCamp to help
showshop their projects.
An independent impactAFRICA jury will then evaluate all finalist projects, and will award cash prizes in the following
categories:
» Best investigative report
» Best data-driven story
» Best service journalism
Both the journalists and their newsrooms will receive cash prizes.
impactAFRICA will also work with winners to syndicate their work internationally or otherwise promote their reportage to help them win the largest possible audiences.
Selected winners will also be sponsored to showcase their work at international media events.
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