Jeune Afrique Media Group, the leading Pan-African media group, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, has unveiled its 2021–2025 strategy. With this transformation project, which comes amid a global pandemic and major digital disruption, the group aims to capitalize on the strength of its brands, its extensive client portfolio, and the size of its […]
Tag: Press and Media
Monrovia — Contrary to the assertion from the fourth in command at the Liberia National Police, Col. Prince Mulbah (103) that the release of opposition figure Mo Ali from detention was delayed because the police had not received any instruction from the Justice Minister at the time he spoke with the media announcing the release, […]
A new report says South Sudanese journalists, rights activists and opposition members living outside the country are still at risk of being harassed and even killed by South Sudanese authorities, most notably by the National Security Service (NSS) intelligence agency. The 43-page report, “No Refuge: South Sudan’s Targeting of Refugee Human Rights Defenders,” was compiled […]
For the past two decades or more foreign partners have spent millions of dollars in Liberia to train reporters and editors without considering institutional capacity building, which is a very key component in having a vibrant media. From UNMIL to various international development partners including IREX and Internews, millions of United States Dollars have been […]
Media practitioners are pushing for a review of the law on access to information. The call was reiterated during a virtual meeting last week, organised by Rwanda Journalists for Sustainable Development (RJSD) and other partners to analyse the implementation of the current information law. The meeting brought together by various stakeholders including the Office of […]
Categories
Nigerian Media ‘Obsessed With Bad News’
“Negative and fake stories make headlines in today’s society simply because people want to hear negatives over positives.” Several policy makers and media managers have accused the Nigerian media of allowing its obsession for bad news and screaming headlines to obstruct the principal mandate of setting the right agenda toward building a united and virile […]
Congolese will vote in presidential elections on Sunday. Most citizens have only ever known one head of state during their lives: Denis Sassou Nguesso, whose grip on power looks set to continue. Billboards plastered with election propaganda in the Congolese capital Brazzaville shout out to the passersby: “Plus loin ensemble” — “we’ll go further together.” […]
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini) has engaged lawyers in an attempt to get an online newspaper to stop publishing critical articles about him. The Swaziland News, is published on a website hosted in South Africa. In the past the King has simply ordered the closure of newspapers and the arrest of […]
Monrovia — To mark one year of Liberian journalists rally in Monrovia to detest the brutalization of media practitioners, the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) says litigation is the best reprimand for security forces’ heavy-handedness. On Thursday, March 11, 2020, Liberian journalists under the leadership of the Press Union of Liberia paraded the principal streets […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s threat to bankrupt his country’s leading daily newspaper by means of a lawsuit is unworthy of a head of state, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says, calling on him to respect press freedom in Uganda. Speaking on International Women’s Day (8 March), the country’s president for the past 34 years said he […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned about the health of the imprisoned Moroccan journalist and historian Maati Monjib, who has been on hunger strike in a Rabat jail for the past week, and calls on authorities to allow him independent medical supervision. Monjib, who also has French citizenship, began a hunger strike on 4 March […]
Journalists have been urged to abide by journalistic ethics and professionalism in their reporting. The call was made by Officer Commanding Bulawayo province, Commissioner Patton Mbangwa Tuesday while addressing Bulawayo media representatives. The meeting was part of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)’s organised nationwide meetings meant to nurture good working relationships between the […]
MISA Malawi is pleased to notify its membership that government has included journalists in the priority group of people to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. MISA Malawi engaged the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 through the Ministry of Information requesting that journalists be among essential priority groups in the immunisation process and we are very grateful […]
The National Press Club (NPC) has named COVID-19 as the Newsmaker of the Year for 2020. This comes a year since the Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, confirmed the first case of Coronavirus in South Africa on 5 March 2020. The annual award, made possible by the NPC since 1980, honours a newsmaker in a […]
Acting Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, has paid tribute to veteran journalist and political analyst Karima Brown for her contribution to the South African media industry. “Brown had an unwavering commitment to journalism and was never afraid to ask difficult questions and speak her mind. Her patriotism saw her pushing the boundaries of complacency […]
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) has learnt with great sadness of the passing of journalist Karima Brown after suffering Covid-19 complications. Brown, who hosted ‘The Fix’ on eNCA and was a well-known political commentator, had been hospitalised for several weeks in the intensive care unit after contracting Covid-19. She held many senior positions […]
Ethiopian authorities on Wednesday released a BBC reporter and several other media workers detained in the past few days by the military in the war-torn northern Tigray region. Mr Girmay Gebru’s release followed pressure from global media watchdogs and press freedom rights groups. He was released without any charge, and no official reason has been […]
Abuja — Nigerian authorities should conduct a credible and transparent investigation into the assault of journalist Eniola Daniel and hold his attackers to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. At about 11 a.m. on February 28, seven police officers–six in uniforms and one in plain clothes–attacked Daniel, a reporter with the privately owned […]