EIB Network’s Faisel Abdul-Iddrisu has been shortlisted for the 2024 prestigious Kwame Karikari Fellowship.
The journalist who reports for EIB Network’s GHOne TV and Starr FM is one of 40 media practitioners and researchers shortlisted from across West African countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia for this year’s fellowship which will run from Friday, 1st March to Monday, 30th August, 2024.
The 6-month fellowship is a fact-checking and verification project initiated by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and under the auspices of DUBAWA.
The project is aimed at combatting the increasing threat of information disorder while upholding the high standards of journalism.
The fellowship which is named after distinguished Ghanaian journalist and academic, Kwame Karkari is dedicated to grooming the next generation of journalists and other media practitioners in accountability journalism while ensuring that media organizations develop a strong culture of fact-checking as part of their daily newsroom activities.
Speaking during a virtual inception workshop for the selected journalists on Monday, 26th February, Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), Dapo Olorunyomi,
said, “If West Africa is going to live up to its promise, journalism is central to the progress.”
He believes journalism is key to the sustainability of democracy, adding that, “Indeed, we are doing fact-checking verification as a key element to democracy.”
Taking the participants through the topic “Understanding the Information Disorder Ecosystem,” Maxine Gloria Danso, Communications Officer for DUBAWA urged journalists to rise against misinformation and disinformation noting that, “information disorder poses a great threat to journalism.”
She stressed that journalists must guard themselves against the tendency of becoming agents or even victims of funded campaigns that are intended to misinform the public.
Faisel’s participation in the fellowship will afford him and the others the opportunity to gain valuable lessons and knowledge that will sharpen their work as journalists in the fact-checking space.
The The Kwame Karikari Fellowship is supported by the “National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
