ALPHA Media Holdings sports reporter Henry Mhara has been shortlisted for the prestigious African Fact-Checking Awards.
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The award honours the best investigative fact-checking story carried out by African journalists this year, reporting that exposed misleading claims made by leading public figures across the continent.
Mhara is one of the seven journalists shortlisted for the award from a total of 130 entries (more than ever before) from 22 countries across the continent.
His investigative piece on fired Dynamos coach Paulo Jorge Silva, Did Dynamos employ a rookie?, published in the leading daily independent NewsDay, would be up against other finalists from Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Cameroon and Swaziland.
The winner and runners-up, decided by an international jury, will be announced on 10 November in Nairobi, Kenya, at the Reporting Africa Conference, organised by the African Media Initiative.
The awards, in their third year running, are co-sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation and AFP news agency.
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Africa Check is an independent, non-partisan organisation which assesses claims made in the public arena using journalistic skills and evidence drawn from the latest online tools, readers, public sources and experts, sorting fact from fiction and publishing the results.
“For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially,” Africa Check said.
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