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African Fact-Checking Awards

The fourth African Fact-Checking Awards honour the best, non-partisan fact-checking journalism by working and student journalists in Africa.

This year, the awards will be held in partnership with the Global Investigative Journalism Network [1], at the GIJN conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, in November 2017.

To be eligible, you must work for an African media house or study journalism at an African journalism college.

All submissions must have been published or broadcast between September 1, 2016 and August 31, 2017, and must fact-check an important claim made in public debate or in the media.

Awards include:

Entries must be true fact-checking reports that focus solely on fairly investigating the accuracy of a claim made in public debate. To know what sort of pieces win, take a look at the previous winners. [2]

Judging criteria include:

 

Prizes include:

Entries will be accepted until August 31, 2017.

 

For more details, contact: info@africacheck.org