TechCabal wins ReportHer Award for promoting gender-balanced reporting

TechCabal’s success on the maiden version of the ReportHer Award shines a highlight on its dedication to gender-balanced reporting

TechCabal walked away because the winner of the digital class of the maiden version of the ReportHer Awards for gender-balanced reporting. At an occasion held in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most vital tech publication was cited for breaking obstacles and making a powerful impression with influential articles and studies which have formed trade conversations.

TechCabal’s win

Hannatu Asheolge and Ngozi Chukwu, two younger journalists, have been profitable of their software for the ReportHer Award within the digital class for TechCabal.

Asheolge mentioned she hoped the award would propel the tech trade to pay higher consideration to ladies and their noteworthy achievements as they’re an integral a part of the ecosystem. She credit TechCabal’s win to a devoted workforce of sensible, diligent editors and reporters prepared to write down impactful tales. In an identical vein, Chukwu described the win as “empowering”, inspiring TechCabal to authentically make clear the regularly ignored narratives of ladies as “creators and users of technology”.

About ReportHer Award

The ReportHer Awards is a gender-balanced reportage award that recognises media organisations and journalists who actively report on ladies and gender-related points, give them prime time and attempt for gender-balanced protection.

The award is an initiative of Women Radio 91.7FM in partnership with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and sponsored by UN Women and the Canadian authorities.

With over 104 entries throughout 5 classes: tv, radio, print, digital, and journalist, TechCabal emerged because the winner within the digital class whereas Ripples Nigeria emerged because the runner-up.

One of the judges, Lanre Arogundade, govt director of the International Press Centre (IPC) highlighted that the judges evaluated varied parameters, such because the inclusion of ladies as sources within the studies and the intention for equal illustration of women and men within the tales.

Arogundade additionally added that they checked out “the extent to which the story uses data, cite sources and looked at presentation and effectiveness and the extent to which media institutions that submitted their entries, and journalists, meet the professional standards portraying women.”

For TechCabal’s editor in chief, Adrian Ephraim, “The awards may be new, but TechCabal’s reporting on women in tech is not. It’s good to see gender reporting acknowledged in this way, and we’re extremely proud of Ngozi and Hannatu who have spearheaded our coverage. Well-deserved.”