{"id":7577,"date":"2021-03-01T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2021-03-01T08:55:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:55:06","slug":"dubawa-graduates-22-fact-checking-fellows-from-three-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/dubawa-graduates-22-fact-checking-fellows-from-three-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubawa graduates 22 fact-checking fellows from three countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Yusuf Akinpelu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nigeria\u2019s independent fact-checking platform, Dubawa, in Abuja on Friday graduated 22 fact-checking fellows selected from Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone in its 2020 fellowship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the platform\u2019s programme officer, Temilade Onilede, 28 fellows began the six-month fellowship, now in its second installation, but 22 of them met the criteria for graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fellows were sent forth at a dinner held in Abuja on Friday, where some fellows were awarded for their exploits during the programme which spanned from July 2020 to January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initiated in 2019, the fellowship is one of the flagship programmes of Dubawa, a project under the auspices of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), aimed at teaching newsrooms in new media platforms, radio and TV stations analytic, dedicated and innovative journalism to research and write truth-based and factual stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PREMIUM TIMES publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, said the fellowship was inspired by the needing to tackle the menace of misinformation and disinformation in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and beyond. He added that it is the mandate of the programme to make fact-checking commonplace in the media space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The editor of Dubawa, Kemi Busari, who took up the role in August 2020, commended the graduands, adding that the fellowship has brought \u201ca lot of improvements in editing, in the writing of fellows and my interpersonal relationship. I must say I enjoyed the bit of every relationship with you all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He urged the fellows to continue fact-checking, and keep the torch of fact-checking burning by nurturing their colleagues who have not started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corroborating this, the PTCIJ programme manager, Tosin Alagbe, said \u201cwe are here to celebrate our second cohort of fellows whom we are incredibly proud of for their role in instituting the culture of fact-checking in their various newsrooms and producing media literacy and research work to enrich the existing body of knowledge about misinformation and disinformation in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awardees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Daily Trust reporter, Francis Iloani, clinched the best fellow award at the gala, in addition to emerging first runner-up in the Best Fact-check Award category with his piece: \u201cIsrael\u2019s currency has Arabic inscription\u2026Nigeria is not a secular state\u2026\u201d \u2013 Other claims by MURIC fact-checked\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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