International Centre for Investigative Reporting

Founded in 2010, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) is an independent Nigerian nonprofit media organization with a mission to promote transparency, accountability, and good governance through investigative reporting. With this award, ICIR collaborates with the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Rise Network, and Media and Journalism partners to plan for and participate in the 2024 first International Mass Communication Conference of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Participation strengthens knowledge sharing and networking between the field of journalism and academia, enhances strategies for better understanding of Artificial Intelligence in elections and media, and fosters community partnerships to create a new generation of tech savvy journalists.

Founded in 2010, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) is an independent Nigerian nonprofit media organization with a mission to promote transparency, accountability, and good governance through investigative reporting. With this X-Grant award, the media and journalism cohort members will attend the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2023. The conference, the largest gathering of journalists, will focus on skills building and presentations on investigative reporting, data journalism, and cross-border collaboration worldwide. It enhances media best practices and fosters collaboration among media practitioners.

Founded in 2010, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) is an independent Nigerian nonprofit media organization with a mission to promote transparency, accountability, and good governance through investigative reporting. This final award supports ICIR’s training of journalists in investigative techniques, data journalism, budget analysis, public procurement, and contracting processes, and contributes to building a sustainable, resilient financial model for the media in Nigeria. ICIR trains early- and mid-career journalists, supports corruption investigations, and promotes female journalists’ inclusion in the journalism pipeline for corruption investigation across Nigerian states and local governments. It collaborates with state- and community-level media organizations to widely disseminate investigative reports on corruption and coordinates with On Nigeria’s Joinbodi and criminal justice cohorts to galvanize collective action for accountability. Finally, it trains and supports media owners, entrepreneurs, business managers, and editors to pilot business models that enhance sustainable investigative journalism and media practices in Nigeria. The award is expected to contribute to On Nigeria’s goal of reducing corruption and strengthening accountability, transparency, and participation.

The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) is an independent, nonprofit news agency that seeks to promote transparency and accountability through robust and objective investigative reporting. The ICIR’s mission is to promote good governance and entrench democratic values by reporting, exposing, and combating corruption. A current grantee of the On Nigeria program, ICIR will use this award in collaboration with African Women in Media to host a virtual 2021 conference with the theme “Building Resilience: The Future of Media in Africa.” The conference brings together media practitioners, civil society leaders, and accountability advocates across gender and geography to discuss the media landscape and how it affects women and other players. This support contributes to strengthening media and journalism from a gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) lens.

The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) is an independent, nonprofit news agency that seeks to promote transparency and accountability through robust and objective investigative reporting. The ICIR’s mission is to promote good governance and entrench democratic values by reporting, exposing, and combating corruption. An existing grantee of the On Nigeria program, this award supports five participants from among On Nigeria grantees to the international conference on whistleblowing in Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 11-13, 2019. The conference brings together civil society leaders and accountability advocates engaged in promotion of whistleblowing principles and protection of rights of whistleblowers to reflect on whistleblowing, lessons and opportunities for collaboration. The support contributes to implementation of whistleblowing policy and anticorruption in Nigeria.