PREMIUM TIMES TO HONOUR OUTSTANDING NIGERIAN CAMPUS JOURNALISTS

The Executive Director disclosed that the next phase of the PTCIJ Next Gen Programme will commence in July and is planned to cover about 30 campuses, explaining that, awards will be given out for the following categories: Best Investigative Story, Best Community Journalism Story, Best Opinion Article,Most Prolific Campus Reporter, Most Active Campus, Best Campus Journalist (Male and Female)

He added that, the selection process for this award categories is being carried out in three phases, which are Pre-qualification(shortlisting) phase, the Scoring Phase and the Compilation Phase.

‘The pre-qualification phase entails the perusal of all stories submitted to the Campus Reporter Platform from inception to the 31st of March, 2018 to select fice stories to compete for the 3 article-based categories. These are: The Best Investigative Story, The Best Community Journalism Story, The Best Opinion Piece’.

Olorunyomi said, the scoring phase entails the further evaluation of these five stories by a panel of Judges who score them based on their expertise and according to a predefined criteria.

‘The Compilation Phase entails the compilation of the results from the Scoring phase to select the winner of the three categories by the Chair of the Judging process. Furthermore, the other categories which include The Most Active Campus and the Best Campus Journalist (Male and Female) will be derivatives of the finalists performances across the other three categories. And finally, the platform administrator will announce the Most Prolific Campus Journalist based on the volume of work put in’.