The award was announced on Friday in Soul, South Korea, at GlobalFact10, the yearly forum of more than 100 member fact-checking institutions globally.
of the said doctor by the regulatory agency, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control .The reporter of the investigative story, which took five months to put together, Kemi Busari, said his greatest accomplishment as a journalist is to make an impact.
He said: “I am glad our team won this award. It is a testament to the fact that people worldwide appreciate the little work we do in our closets, and we hope to continue to do more impactful fact-checking that will change people’s lives in Nigeria and West Africa. “I would like to state that the first award for us and me as journalists is the impact we can drive with this story and the positive changes we can effect in people’s lives.”He also recognised the efforts of the regulatory agency- NAFDAC since the investigation was published.
“Since we published this, the authorities have lived up to expectation in some ways, and we hope that we can fully bring the culprit to book and sanitise our society of harmful concoctions,” he added.The International Fact-Checking Network is housed at the Poynter Institute Miami, Florida, United States. It was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world and advocates of factual information in the global fight against misinformation.
IFCN says it enables “fact-checkers through networking, capacity building and collaboration…[and] promotes the excellence of fact-checking to more than 100 organisations worldwide through advocacy, training and global events.”The IFCN team also monitors trends in the fact-checking field to offer resources to fact-checkers, contribute to public discourse and provide support for new projects and initiatives that advance accountability in journalism.
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