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ICFJ Voices: Ojoma Akor, On Health Journalism

Nigerian journalist Ojoma Akor has received a variety of awards and fellowships throughout her career. Through an ICFJ program, she produced important work, including the first cross-border story in her portfolio. She credits the fellowship for deepening her understanding of malnutrition on the health beat.

ICFJ Voices: Irene Caselli, Improving Coverage of Early Childhood Globally

Through her engagement with ICFJ, Irene Caselli received financial assistance and mentoring, and was able to publish a piece on refugees that would not have been possible without ICFJ support. Caselli is from Naples, Italy, and resides in Athens, Greece. She covers early childhood and caregiving through a global lens.

ICFJ Voices: Justina Asishana, Driving Impact Through Integrity and Coalition

For Justina Asishana, journalism is about integrity and impact. From documenting the dangerous decline in Nigeria’s health system to reporting directly from internally displaced person’s camps in the midst of the pandemic, she is meticulous and people-focused in her investigations and has a proven record of influence. Here’s what Asishana had to say about her work at the Africa Women Journalism Project.

Journalists from Kenya, India, Nigeria Take Top Prizes for Reporting on Malnutrition

Leon Lidigu, a Kenyan journalist who revealed the struggles of a vulnerable community faced with malnutrition in school children, has been selected as the first-place winner of the 2021 Global Nutrition and Food Security Reporting Contest.