Tolu Ogunlesi, Managing Partner at WoweMedia and former Special Assistant to Nigeria’s former president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Digital/New Media, will deliver the keynote on ‘Media credibility, investigative reporting and artificial intelligence’ at the 4th Amplify In-depth Media (AIM) Conference and Awards on Zoom on Sunday 8 and Monday 9, December by 1pm daily. The 19th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting Award presentation ceremony to close the conference on the other hand, will hold as a physical event on Monday 9, December, from 5pm to 8pm at the AGIP Recital Hall of the MUSON Centre in Lagos with red carpet and refreshment starting at 4:00pm.
The two-day virtual conversation will explore the interplay between the ethics required of the news media and investigative reporting and how to navigate preserving these in an era of technological disruptions like Artificial Intelligence. The first day will feature David Ajikobi, Nigeria Editor, Africa Check; Victoria Bamas, Editor, International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR); and Jeff Lowenstein, Executive Director, Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ); as panellists.
On day two, there will be an inter-generational conversation on the conference theme with Dayo Duyile, Head Mass Communication Department, Wesley University, Ondo, Simon Kolawole, Founder, TheCable newspaper; Juliet Buna, Editor, Crest FM, Ibadan; Ogechi Ekeanyanwu, Regional Coordinator, Sub-Saharan Africa at SciDev.Net, and Fanny Eric, Mass Communication undergraduate, Kashere University, Gombe. Nabilah Usman, Producer with Radio Now 95.3FM will moderate the two-day event.
The 2024 AIM Conference and Awards is this year hosted as part of activities for WSCIJ’s Civic Space Guard programme with the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) as a collaborator in an effort supported by the Netherlands Embassy under a project tagged ‘Leveraging the power of the media to fortify the civic space and tackle mal information’. The physical award presentation event on the evening of Monday 9 December at MUSON Centre will recognise excellence in investigative journalism across print, radio, television, photo, online, and editorial cartoon categories.
Signed
Motunrayo Alaka
ED/CEO, WSCIJ