Nigerian Celebrities Launch Campaign to Fight Misinformation

Nigeria’s largest scale campaign to combat the spread of fake news.

Funding media is a development issue. Here’s how to do it right.

On October 7th, 2019, the BBC released a documentary titled Sex for Grades, which detailed the harrowing tales of female students being coerced into sex in exchange for good grades by their university professors in Nigeria and Ghana. Nearly a year later, on July 7th, 2020, the Nigerian Senate passed the Sexual Harassment Bill 2020, […]

Call for Application: Gatefield Pro-Health Policy Journalism Fellowship 2022

Gatefield Impact is inviting applications from Nigerian journalists for its inaugural Pro-Health Policy Journalism Fellowship. The fellowship is an initiative of Gatefield Impact, a recipient of the Healthy Food Advocacy Fund. Gatefield Impact, through the National Action for Sugar Reduction, led advocacy efforts for the introduction of Nigeria’s sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB)  tax, through the Finance […]

Gatefield’s People Journalism Prize for Africa 2021 Winners

We are excited to announce the winners of the Gatefield-backed People Journalism Prize for Africa (PJPA) 2021.  Now in its third year, the PJPA is a public service journalism initiative to recognize and reward journalists, citizen reporters, and social justice newsmakers on the continent. This year’s nominees and winners have been selected by journalists, human […]

Gatefield’s People Journalism Prize for Africa 2021 Nominees

The Gatefield-backed People Journalism Prize for Africa (PJPA) is a public service journalism initiative to recognize and reward journalists, citizen reporters, and social justice newsmakers on the continent. Now in its third year, the PJPA reached out to dozens of journalists, human rights defenders, and public opinion shapers across the continent and received nominations for […]

Gatefield’s People Journalism Prize for Africa 2020 Winners

Investigative journalists Hopewell Chin’ono, David Hundeyin and gender advocacy group – Feminist Coalition (FemCo) are winners of the Gatefield People Journalism Prize for Africa 2020 (PJPA).  In its second year, the PJPA 2020 comes with a $3,000 reward for the selected journalists and $15,000 worth of strategic communications support to FemCo from Gatefield. Zimbabwean journalist […]

On the restriction of Gatefield’s Journalism Fund account

Gatefield is an impact-focused public strategy firm with a strong history of supporting independent journalism through funding and technical support. Through our independent corporate social responsibility arm, Gatefield Impact, we have supported and mobilized resources for dozens of Nigerian journalists and independent media organizations to tell public good stories on public health, gender violence, food […]

3 takeaways from Gatefield’s People Journalism Prize for Africa 2019 award ceremony

In January, Gatefield announced the launch and endowment of  a public service journalism initiative branded the People Journalism Prize for Africa. On Thursday, 20th February 2020, we presented the joint winners of the PJPA 2019: Kiki Mordi and Fisayo Soyombo with their Journalists of the Year award. A special recognition award for social justice advocacy was […]

Gatefield’s People Journalism Prize for Africa 2019 Winners

Monday 20, January 2020 – ABUJA, NIGERIA: Investigative journalists Kiki Mordi and Fisayo Soyombo are winners of the People Journalism Prize for Africa 2019 (PJPA). The inaugural prize is backed by a $3000 (N1,000,000) endowment from Gatefield, a Sub-Saharan Africa public strategy firm. Kiki was selected for her investigation into the horrid web of sexual […]