The African Fact-Checking is accepting submissions for Awards for Journalistic Excellence for the academic year 2023/2024 to promote and recognize great fact-checking journalism by African media practitioners.
Entries are open to journalists, journalism students, and professional fact-checkers all around the continent. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the awards, making them the longest-running awards program honoring fact-checking journalism in Africa.Africa Check, the continent’s first independent non-profit fact-checking agency, was founded in South Africa in 2012 with the help of philanthropic organizations and individual benefactors. This team has discredited inflammatory assertions about the amount of foreign people in the country, as well as discovered inaccuracies in national crime data.