THE CENTRE for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) is collaborating with 18 media organisations to amplify real-time election field reports from observers deployed across the country in the 2023 General Elections.
The Deputy Director of Accountability CJID, Mboho Eno, made this known on Friday, February 24, in Abuja.
Eno said the partnership is designed to support the media with credible real-time information that could improve the quality of information available on electoral activities.
He stated that collaboration would help to deepen democratic engagement and strengthen institutions through civic and media strategies during the elections.
“It is basically a resource-sharing initiative to help deepen the nation’s democratic gains through ensuring the accountability of the electoral process.”
Eno stressed that the partnership is a loose coalition that includes the CJID, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), Premium Times, Media Trust Group, WikkiTimes, and Dataphyte Nigeria Limited.
Other media partners include Blaze 91.5 FM, TheInformant 247, TwentyTen Daily, Sobi FM, BONews Services, African Tech Radio, Lens Africa TV, Rapid FM, Just Event Online, Oyo News, Insight Multi-Links Media, Roundoffnews and Platform Times Media.
Eno further emphasised that the partnership is at no cost to the media houses but was conceived with a high sense of constitutional responsibility to help extend each other’s news coverage resources through collaborative reporting that deepens citizens’ capacity.
The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development however stressed that it would deploy over 60 observers and reporters across 33 states of the federation to monitor and give a situation analysis of proceedings during the general election.
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