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We are a knowledge-producing journalism think-tank that supports and empowers the African media to promote democratic accountability and sustainable development.

With the rapid evolution of the digital space, what lessons can newsrooms learn from digital creators about storytelling...
23/09/2026

With the rapid evolution of the digital space, what lessons can newsrooms learn from digital creators about storytelling, audience engagement and influence?

The aim is to identify strategies to shape the conversations around road collisions in digital spaces by building trust.

Like every other type of reporting, ethics is the bedrock of road safety reporting. African newsrooms should uphold approaches that ensure victims and survivors of road crashes are not further traumatised.

Ethics in trauma-informed reporting, when done right, holds authorities accountable and does not infer judgement.

Do language and data shape public attitudes around road collisions, especially in Africa?That question opens the convers...
23/09/2026

Do language and data shape public attitudes around road collisions, especially in Africa?

That question opens the conversation on Day 2 of the African Road Safety Media Forum because, more often than not, the way media practitioners and newsrooms frame road crashes shapes the public’s perception and understanding of the issue.

Using “accident” instead of “crash” or “collision” in reports obscures the narrative and shapes the questions journalists can ask.

Reporting road collisions also depends on understanding the data behind road safety. Data connects individual crashes to the broader safety story.

Knowing data sources, verifying them, and disaggregating evidence helps keep the issue in focus, because numbers without context can make patterns, risks, and trends ambiguous.

Call for Applications 📢The CJID invites journalists, editors, and campus reporters based in or with strong reporting acc...
22/09/2026

Call for Applications 📢

The CJID invites journalists, editors, and campus reporters based in or with strong reporting access to Nigeria’s South-South, South-East, and South-West regions to apply for a two-day in-person workshop on investigating migration fraud.

The selected journalists will receive editorial mentorship to develop and publish investigations into fraudulent recruitment, visa and job scams, and related migration abuses.

📆 Deadline: 30 September 2026

🔗 Click the link to apply: forms.gle/t16nyqQWUBy1hrbs9

22/09/2026

Abuja, Nigeria — September 22, 2026 — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) will today open a first-of-its-kind African media forum on road safety, aimed at kick-starting the development of the continent’s first road safety media gu...

This afternoon is basically editors talking to editors.How do stories get commissioned? What makes a road safety story w...
22/09/2026

This afternoon is basically editors talking to editors.

How do stories get commissioned? What makes a road safety story worth pursuing beyond the breaking news? What happens during editing? What gets prominence? And when do we go back to a crash story after everyone else has moved on?

Journalists from different African newsrooms are comparing notes.

Now we’re looking at actual road-crash stories published by African newsrooms.Not to mark anyone’s journalism as good or...
22/09/2026

Now we’re looking at actual road-crash stories published by African newsrooms.

Not to mark anyone’s journalism as good or bad. The question is simpler: after reading the story, what do we know about why the crash happened? And what would we still want the reporter to find out?

The conversation is getting interesting.

A useful idea from this morning: people will make mistakes on the road. The transport system should be designed so that ...
22/09/2026

A useful idea from this morning: people will make mistakes on the road. The transport system should be designed so that those mistakes don’t automatically lead to death or serious injury.

Dr Nhan Tran of the World Health Organization (WHO) is taking the room through the Safe System approach and what it means for how we understand road deaths.

We are in Abuja this week with editors, journalists and content creators from across Africa for a conversation we probab...
22/09/2026

We are in Abuja this week with editors, journalists and content creators from across Africa for a conversation we probably don’t have enough.

We report road crashes almost every day. But how well do we actually report them? What questions do we miss? And why does so much of the reporting end with the number of people who died and what the driver supposedly did?

For the next three days, CJID and WHO are bringing people who make these editorial decisions into the same room to think through some of these questions.

The conversations will also feed into a reporting guide that we hope African newsrooms can actually use.

Call for Innovators 📢The AI and Democracy Forum is calling on builders, researchers, civic technologists, startups, and ...
21/09/2026

Call for Innovators 📢

The AI and Democracy Forum is calling on builders, researchers, civic technologists, startups, and innovators in Nigeria with AI solutions that protect elections, inform voters, and strengthen public trust to submit ideas for the AI in Elections Sandbox.

The Forum seeks solutions focusing on these critical areas: countering disinformation, voter education and inclusion, election observation and data, and transparency and trust tech solutions.

Selected exhibitors will get grant funding, live pitch before expert jury and forum delegates, access to funders, and global visibility.

📆 Deadline: September 24, 2026

🔗 Click the link to apply: aianddemocracyforum.org

Data from the recurrent cases of violence across Nigeria raise critical questions around the government’s commitment to ...
21/09/2026

Data from the recurrent cases of violence across Nigeria raise critical questions around the government’s commitment to tackling insecurity.

Despite repeated promises, the gap between government intervention and the actual safety of citizens remains wide.

In the past week, recorded violent incidents in Sokoto, Katsina, Kaduna, and Plateau states, where 8 people were killed, 15 were abducted, and a property was vandalised.

These incidents were recorded in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Dandume LGA of Katsina State, Igabi LGA of Kaduna State, and Barkin-Ladi LGA of Plateau State.

Our tracker maps and monitors the scale of violence to ensure that the realities of insecurity remain on the front burner.

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Plot 1088, Isiyaku Ismaila Street, Wuye
Abuja
900108

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Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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