Conference News
AIJC2025 Call for Proposals Now Open / Appel à contribution
The African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) returns in 2025 and, like every year, we want to ensure we present the most interesting work and journalists on the continent. We invite you to suggest speakers, panels, themes or training. Do you have something...
AIJC 2024 – Statement on Safety of Journalists in Africa
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This week marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, a day where UNESCO as the leading agency to protect and promote freedom of expression aims to remind us all that journalism is in danger and impunity remains in...
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AIJC Awards finalists chosen from among incredibly strong entries in 2024
The 2024 finalists of the prestigious WCJ / AIJC African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award have been selected, recognising tenacious, hard-hitting examples of investigative reporting from and about Africa. “Investigative journalists from across Africa gave...
AIJC and Wits Centre for Journalism announce 2024 investigative journalism Masterclass fellows
The African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC), in collaboration with SKUP (the Association for a Critical and Investigative Press in Norway) and Bellingcat, an independent global investigative organisation, will host an intensive training course on the latest...
WCJ invites media colleagues to apply for access to the 2024 African Investigative Journalism Conference
PRESS RELEASE The annual African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC), an initiative of the Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) and the largest gathering of African investigative journalists on the continent, returns for its 20th edition in 2024. DATE: 30 OCTOBER...
Bumper 20th AIJC edition in the works
By Enock Sithole The 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) promises to be a bumper edition, dealing with several issues facing journalism today. The issues to be discussed include sustainability, climate change journalism, artificial intelligence...
Entries open for 2024 African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award
All African journalists are invited to submit entries for the 2024 Wits Centre for Journalism / AIJC African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award. The award, supported by Absa, recognises outstanding examples of investigative reporting from Africa that reveal...
AIJC2024 Call for Fellowships
The African Investigative Journalism Conference invites practicing investigative journalists under the age of 30 to apply for a fellowship to attend #AIJC2024, to be held at Wits University in Johannesburg from October 30 to November 1, 2024. The fellowship will cover...