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CNN MULTICHOICE AFRICAN JOURNALIST AWARDS 2016 - CALL TO ENTRY!!

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CNN International and MultiChoice this week officially launched the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2016 Awards.

The competition for African nationals based on the continent welcomes entries from journalists creating content targeting an African audience.

A new category has been added this year, The Maggie Eales Young Journalist Award. This is named in honour of the late Maggie Eales, the CNN executive and former journalist who during her 20 year career at CNN was the driving force behind the development and growth of the African Journalist Awards.  

This award reflects Maggie’s enduring passion for nurturing young talent and will recognise the work of journalists starting out in their career, who demonstrate exceptional storytelling and the ability to identify a story and tell it with conviction.  There are no restrictions on subject matter for this category and entrants must be born after 1 Jan 1990.

Burkinabé journalist Hyacinthe Boowurosigue Sanou was awarded the top prize at the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2015 Awards ceremony.


Since the first Awards in 1995, the competition has grown in size and status to become Africa’s most prestigious media event.

In 2015, a ‘Highlights Programme’ of the ceremony, held in Nairobi, Kenya, was broadcast across Africa, plus the UK, USA and the Caribbean.

Open to journalists working in any medium, this year the competition will recognise excellence in the following categories:

·         Culture Award

·         Dow Technology & Innovation Reporting Award

·         Ecobank Economics & Business Award

·         Features Award

·         Francophone General News Award – Electronic Media

·         GE Energy & Infrastructure Award

·         Mohamed Amin Photographic Award

·         MSD Health & Medical Award

·         News Impact Award

·         Portuguese Language General News Awards

·         Press Freedom Award

·         Sport Reporting Award

·         The African Development Bank Environment Award

·         The Maggie Eales Young Journalist Award



From these category winners, an independent judging panel choose the overall winner - The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2016.

Finalists in the 2016 competition will participate in a finalists’ programme that will include a media forum and networking opportunities with senior journalists, editors, business leaders and media owners from across the continent, culminating in a gala awards ceremony later in the year.

The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2016 will have the opportunity to participate in the CNN Journalism Fellowship at CNN Headquarters in Atlanta.

Once again this year, the competition has become even easier for journalists to enter, with submissions being made via the entry form website www.africa.cnnjournalistaward.com

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