CJID awards local media sustainability grants to seven Nigerian newsrooms

The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) has announced seven Nigerian media organisations as the inaugural beneficiaries of its Local Media Sustainability Fund (LMSF), a flagship initiative designed to strengthen the long-term sustainability of independent local media across West Africa.

Over the next five years, our ambition is to support at least 100 local and community media organisations across West Africa—helping them strengthen governance, diversify revenue, improve operational resilience, and remain editorially independent while continuing to produce journalism that advances democracy, accountability, and informed public participation.

Combining catalytic funding with institutional capacity building, newsroom coaching, technical assistance, and peer learning, the programme seeks to help local media organisations build enduring institutions capable of producing high-quality public-interest journalism that advances accountability, democracy, and civic participation.