The Managing Partner at WoweMedia and former Special Assistant to former president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Digital/New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi, is set to keynote the 4th Amplify In-depth Media (AIM) Conference.
This was contained in a statement signed by Executive Director, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka.
Ogunlesi will deliver the keynote on Media credibility, investigative reporting and artificial intelligence.
The conference is slated to hold via Zoom on Sunday 8th and Monday 9th of December by 1 pm daily.
In the same vein, the 19th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting Award presentation ceremony will draw the curtains of the conference as a physical event on Monday 9th December.
The Award ceremony will take plate at the AGIP Recital Hall of the MUSON Centre in Lagos from 5pm to 8pm with red carpet and refreshment starting at 4:00pm.
The two-day conversation will explore the interplay between the ethics required of the news media and investigative reporting and how to navigate preserving these in an era of technological disruptions like Artificial Intelligence.
The first day will feature David Ajikobi, Nigeria Editor, Africa Check; Victoria Bamas, Editor, International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR); and Jeff Lowenstein, Executive Director, Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ); as panellists.
On day two, there will be an inter-generational conversation on the conference theme with Dayo Duyile, Head Mass Communication Department, Wesley University, Ondo, Simon Kolawole, Founder, TheCablenewspaper; Juliet Buna, Editor, Crest FM, Ibadan; Ogechi Ekeanyanwu, Regional Coordinator, Sub-Saharan Africa at SciDev.Net, and Fanny Eric, Mass Communication undergraduate, Kashere University, Gombe. Nabilah Usman, Producer with Radio Now 95.3FM will moderate the two-day event.
The 2024 AIM Conference and Awards is hosted this year as part of activities for WSCIJ’s Civic Space Guard programme with the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) as a collaborator in an effort supported by the Netherlands Embassy under a project tagged ‘Leveraging the power of the media to fortify the civic space and tackle mal information’.
The physical award presentation event on the evening of Monday 9 December at MUSON Centre will recognise excellence in investigative journalism across print, radio, television, photo, online, and editorial cartoon categories.