Kofoworola Belo-Osagie is an award winning journalist with more than17 years of experience. Belo-Osagie is a 2021 Fellow of the Wole Soyinka Female Reporters Leadership Project; a 2017 Fellow of the Dart Center Reporting Institute on Early Childhood Development and the Brain, Columbia University, New York; and a 2016 Fellow of the Kiplinger Program in Digital Journalism at the Ohio State University.  Kofoworola studied Mass Communication at the Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State. She started her journalism career at The Comet newspaper after observing the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 2005. In 2006, The Nation started as a breakaway paper from The Comet. Kofoworola was hired as a pioneer staff and rose through the ranks from reporter to chief correspondent and head of the education desk in 2014. She joined about 26 other mentees in the Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR) program to publish a book titled "Briefcases and Blenders" detailing wisdom from top career women who served as program mentors. In 2015, she earned a post graduate diploma in Media and Communication (Community Relations) from the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos. In 2016, she participated in cybercrime training for journalists and information officers organized by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute in Turin, Italy. In March 2022, Kofoworola joined The Conversation Africa as Commissioning Editor, Nigeria, beginning a new journey into the world of research publishing for the general public. In her spare time, Kofoworola volunteers to share career awareness tips with young people, especially those transiting from secondary to tertiary institutions. 

IVLP Impact Award Project: Digital Fact Check Training for Women Journalists

"This is my first training, and it is very special because I just joined the journalism field. Now, I know I need to fact check and ask twice. I know I will be extremely careful with my stories. Thank you for this opportunity; I do not take it lightly.” - Project Participant 

IVLP Exchange Experience

Kofoworola participated in the IVLP Project Edward R. Murrow IVLP Journalism Project, Media Responsibility in an Age of Disinformation, organized by the U.S. Department of State and the Mississippi Consortium for International Development in partnership with Global Minnesota, Columbia Council for Internationals, Global Ties Alabama and World Partnerships, Inc..

U.S. Communities Visited Virtually

Huntsville, AL; Washington, DC; Tampa, FL; Minneapolis, MN; Columbia, SC

"The biggest lesson from my IVLP experience was learning for the first time the meaning of misinformation and disinformation and the damage they cause. The program made me more interested in fact-checking, which had always been a cause of concern for me." - Kofoworola Belo-Osagie

Country: Nigeria

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