‘Fisayo Soyombo, pioneer editor of TheCable, has emerged a 2023-24 Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan, United States.
May 12, 2023 9:37 AM‘Fisayo Soyombo, pioneer editor of TheCable, has been named a 2023-24 Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan, US.by the Wallace House Centre for Journalists and the University of Michigan said the 2023-2024 class is a “cohort of 19 accomplished journalists representing nine countries and a broad cross-section of the US”.
The fellows will pursue ambitious journalism projects, audit courses at the university and participate in weekly seminars with journalism leaders, renowned scholars, media innovators and social change agents. Lynette Clemetson, director of Wallace House, said the fellows were selected to show the challenges journalists encounter while trying to report socially changing stories.
“Now more than ever, the work of these and all journalists is essential to protecting and expanding democratic values. We are honoured to support them.”, and simultaneously explore related themes, including prison reform movements around the world, and the social and commercial history of the prison industrial complex in the US.The Knight-Wallace fellowship is the latest in Soyombo’s recognition-laden journalism career.
The former editor of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting and SaharaReporters was one of the winners of the Karpoor Chandra Kulish International Award for Excellence in Journalism 2021 — for his 2019 undercover investigation on the failings of Nigeria’s criminal justice system, for which he got himself detained at a police cell for five days before spending another eight in prison after he had been arraigned in court.
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