Yemisi Akinbobola is a

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, academic, and co-winner of the

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African Journalist Award 2016 in sports reporting. She is the co-founder of African Women in the Media group, which was established to foster the needs of female African media content producers. She studied

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at the

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and had her Masters in Media Production from Birmingham City University, where she subsequently gained her PhD in Media and Cultural Studies. She later became a visiting lecturer and researcher at the same university. She completed an internship with

, and during this period she set up IQ4News. The news platform was recognized for an investigation into the trafficking of young, West African soccer players by fake agents. She formed Stringers Africa—an organization that started from her difficulties recruiting African journalist for her freelance job. Akinbobola has freelanced for publications like

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Africa Renewal magazine.

Background and education

Yemisi is a Nigerian born media entrepreneur and the co-founder of African Women in the Media from

Akure Akure is a city in south-western Nigeria. It is the capital and largest city of Ondo State. The city had a population of 403,000 as at the 2006 population census. History Pre 1914 Rock engravings dating back to the Mesolithic period, hav ...

, Ondo state. She had her first degree in Creative Arts from the

. She obtained her Master in Media and Cultural Studies and PhD in Media and Cultural Studies at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

Career

Yemisi was co-winner of the

African Journalist Award 2016 for "sport reporting" at the "CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the Year Award" in

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. The award was jointly won with Ogechi Ekeanyanwu, a reporter for Premium Newspaper, and Paul Bradshaw of IQ4News. The award was made for her

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of fake sports agents and their impact on

players. She has worked as a freelance writer for the

' '' Africa Renewal'' magazine. She is the founder of Stringer Africa, a media organization focusing on bridging the existing gap of freelance journalists in Africa media industry. In 2010, Yemisi founded IQ4NeWs to create a platform for African journalists, bloggers, citizens and experts to tell stories from an African perspective.

References

External links

African Women in the Media
{{DEFAULTSORT:Akinbobola, Yemisi Living people Nigerian journalists Yoruba women journalists Nigerian expatriates in the United Kingdom People from Ondo State People from Akure Year of birth missing (living people) Nigerian women journalists