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2020 recorded the highest of these numbers globally as 283 journalists were imprisoned. Those imprisoned in 2020 accounted for 5.5% of the total number detained from 1992 to 2020.
In 2021, the situation got darker as a total of 42 journalists died while 293 journalists were jailed for doing their jobs within the year.
For his timely story on a drug trial that went wrong 24 years previously, retirees being denied their pensions in Osun State and the underserved communities drinking from contaminated streams, Dataphyte’s multimedia journalist Samad Uthman has been shortlisted for the Thompson Foundation Young Journalist award 2021.
Samad Uthman, a journalist with the leading media and data analytics organization, Dataphyte, has been shortlisted for the West Africa Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA) 2021.
