Tag: media development
Q&A: AU’s Musabayana on fixing media coverage of Africa climate issues
There have been grievances from a section of news consumers that journalists fail to communicate properly climate policy discourses to the public. In fact, many criticised the coverage of the Africa Climate Summit as full of jargons.
Q&A: We still see conspiracy of silence when journalists come under attack
The outgoing head of Eastern Africa Editors Society spoke to RwandaPost about issues that still plague the practice of independent journalism in East Africa
Africa: Media fraternity key asks to Govts on freedoms
Media practitioners asked UNESCO to lead efforts to create an African media fund to finance and enhance media sustainability and viability. They say the move is necessary to protect the media from political and economic pressures.
Weighing the future of Africa media: Experts' take
A binding instrument adopted in November 2019 obliges States in Africa to promote a conducive economic environment in which all media can flourish, including through the adoption of policies for the provision of financial or other public support for the sustainability of all media.
EA journalists brave threats to carry out their reporting
At least four journalists were killed since the year started while more are languishing in prisons across the region simply for doing their jobs
Can't feed a family? Journalism is a passion and you can’t fake it
No one is telling universities and journalism training institutions, or the latter simply don’t bother to check, that realities of the industry have completely changed. They are comfortable sticking to the old curricula despite evidence suggesting that landscape has changed so much that a shift is overdue.
