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Wan-Ifra explores how news media is adapting business models to promote press...
Image credit: Juliana Malta on Unsplash</span>The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (Wan-Ifra) has released a new report that looks into how news media companies - in Africa,...
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#Loeries2019: Tackling unconscious bias, raising jurors' cultural awareness
Asha Ranchhod Patel, head of marketing at Google South Africa.</span>The Loeries is only the second international award show after the D&AD awards to introduce "unconscious bias" workshops...
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Media trip to AHIF event sponsored by APO
APO will award one African journalist transport, accommodation and a daily allowance to attend the 2019 Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF), the premier hotel investment conference in Africa, which...
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'Troubling' erosion of press freedom in certain SADC states
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>The Committee to Protect Journalists has noted "a deeply troubling erosion of press freedom in several member states, including attacks on individual journalists,...
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PAMRO student bursaries announced
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>Annually, the Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) awards bursaries for media research students to further their studies and attend the annual PAMRO...
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Mo Abudu: Woman of many firsts
Mo Abudu.</span>Mosunmola Abudu, also known as Mo Abudu, is founder of a Pan African TV channel, EbonyLife TV, a network airing in more than 49 countries across Africa, as well as in the UK and...
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#Loeries2019: What do CMOs really want from their agency?
The Loeries' Game and Dion Wired 'What do CMOs really want' masterclass panel. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.</span>One of the biggest changes to the advertising landscape in recent...
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#Loeries2019: Our responsibility of better representation in advertising, media
Sphelele Mjadu, Unilever Personal Care Senior Public Relations Manager for Africa and Anne Githuku-Shongwe, representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office, in the UN Women-Dove...
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#Loeries2019: Check the stereotypes in your creativity
Anne Githuku-Shongwe, representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office, addressing the DStv Seminar of Creativity. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.</span>Things got off to a...
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#Loeries2019: Africans aren't just swimming with the creative sharks, we are...
Piwe Motshegoa, head of sales: general entertainment at DStv media sales. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.</span>Piwe Motshegoa, head of sales: general entertainment at DStv media sales,...
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#FairnessFirst: The power of women in influencer marketing
Andrea Opoku, director and Africa ambassador for Women in Marketing.</span>One of the highlights of last year's Loeries Masterclasses was the Women in Marketing (WIM) Africa launch event. Here...
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Tanzania detains Watetezi TV journalist over investigation of police
The Committee to Protect Journalists said it is concerned for the welfare of investigative journalist Joseph Gandye, who was arrested yesterday and handed over to police on whom he had reported...
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Onslaught against press freedoms in Tanzania
A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel...
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Empowering news organisations through technological innovation
Last year Google launched the Google News Initiative to help to build a stronger future for journalism by helping media to thrive in the digital age. This was followed by the GNI Innovation Challenge...
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Western media, Chinese media... where is African media?
Image courtesy of Fotolighthouse.</span>African communication professionals have started a movement to rebrand the continent. Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, at the first-ever Global Africa Forum on...
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Fresh vigilance is needed to protect media freedom across Africa
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>One of the least enviable tasks of journalists in the US must be reporting on how the public trusts their work less and less. A 2018 study found that only about...
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Ugandan journalist wins APO invite
Ugandan journalist Isaac Khisa wins APO Group invitation to attend the 2019 Africa Hotel Investment Forum. Each year APO Group offers African journalists the opportunity to attend major events as a...
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Internet shutdowns and the future of democracy in Africa
Ventures Africa discusses internet shutdowns and the future of democracy in Africa in its newly launched 'Speak!' series. Ventures Africa Speak offers a unique angle around the key issues in policy,...
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Why Tanzania's attacks on free speech break with Nyerere's legacy
The statue of founding president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in Tanzania’s political capital Dodoma. Credit: WikiCommons.</span>I visited Tanzania recently for the first time in five years, and the...
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ANA News to scale back SA operations
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>The African News Agency News (ANA News) has announced it will be downsizing in South Africa due to declining revenues and increasing costs and competition in the...
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