Media Houses Championing Women’s Representation Honored at ReportHer Awards 2025
Top rate Instances, BONews Service, News Company of Nigeria (NAN), and Federal Radio Company of Nigeria (FRCN) emerged winners on the 2025 ReportHer Awards, held on Friday in Lagos, to beget a good time media organizations demonstrating distinctive dedication to gender equity and girls folk’s representation in journalism.
The awards, a collaborative initiative of Ladies folk Radio 91.7FM and Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), identified noteworthy performance all the procedure by four key categories reflecting a in point of fact fundamental areas for bettering girls folk’s representation in Nigerian media.
Top rate Instances received the Excellence in GBV Reporting class for its accountability-targeted investigative reporting on gender-primarily based violence, reproductive justice and gender-policy points. The news organisation changed into recommended for examining the social, cultural, correct and political drivers of gender-defined survival points by ethical, moral and alternate choices-pushed reporting.
BONews Service clinched the Excellence in Inclusive Advocacy and Reportage award for its balanced, lovely and nuanced media protection promoting gender equality, incapacity inclusion and social justice.
In the Excellence in Real-Ladies folk Place of enterprise Protection class, News Company of Nigeria (NAN) emerged winner for implementing supportive policies including six-month maternity scurry away, two-hour discount in day after day work hours for six months after resumption from maternity scurry away, 14 days of paternity scurry away, creche amenities in its Abuja headquarters and Lagos arrangement of job, and gentle-weight responsibility work alternate choices for nursing employees.
Federal Radio Company of Nigeria received the Excellence in Feminine Management Representation award, with 70 per cent of management management positions headed by girls folk, 11 girls folk serving as heads of division within the FRCN committee of management, and six girls folk occupying deputy director positions all the procedure by FRCN regional offices.
The organizers said that whereas one winner emerged per class, every media home committed to lovely and balanced reporting changed into acknowledged and eminent. They thanked editors, newshounds, producers, digital storytellers and cartoonists whose dedication ensures that girls folk’s voices are heard, respected and represented.
Motunrayo Alaka CEO Wole Soyinka centre for Investigative Journalism highlighted that WSCIJ has for twenty years championed dauntless, inclusive journalism that empowers newshounds, strengthens media management and advances gender and social equity by collaborations, practising, fellowships, mentorship, the Document Ladies folk program and the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting.
CEO of Ladies folk Radio 91.7FM, Toun Okewale Sonaiya effectively-known that since 2015, Ladies folk Radio 91.7FM, Nigeria’s most effective feminine-centric radio living, has been a extremely effective instrument for girls folk’s pattern, rights and inclusive governance by initiatives including NimiAI, Nigeria’s first AI radio host supporting girls folk with valid-time tailored help; ReportHer trainings by the Ladies folk Radio Centre practising feminine journalists in investigative reporting; media dialogues amplifying girls folk’s tales; and the annual Issue of Ladies folk Conference and Awards, Nigeria’s greatest inclusive convening advancing girls folk’s management and grassroots impact.
The ReportHer Awards 2025 changed into supported by Ford Foundation West Africa. The organisers said that the initiative targets to reinforce media accountability and foster a sustained tradition of gender-inclusive reporting all the procedure by the country.
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