Catherine Gicheru | Truth is always a casualty during any campaign season and it was no different during Kenya’s recent presidential elections. A week before the August 8 vote, Facebook launched a highly publicized campaign meant to educate Kenya’s estimated 6.1 million Facebook users on identifying fake news. The campaign included print and radio advertisements, while Kenyan users who…
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Damian Radcliffe | The annual Digital News Report, from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the attitudes and habits of news audiences. The 2017 study covers 36 different markets (up from five in 2012) and is crammed with 133 pages of rich insight. Here are…
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Mandla Chinula | Instead of counting on readers to stay glued to articles while using devices that are overloaded with information and choice, media organizations around the world are experimenting with different ways of delivering their content. Enter live journalism. In addition to giving readers a more focused, captivating way of consuming content, it also…
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Mariana Marcaletti, Nieman Lab | August 25, 2017 If the name Pictoline rings a bell, it’s because you might have seen the outlet’s bright, funny graphics pop up in your Twitter, Facebook and Instagram feeds more and more over the past two years. Identifiable for its short visual explainers — called “bacons” as a nod to the company’s…
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Janine Warner and David LaFontaine | This is the final part in a four-part series about journalism and cybersecurity. See part one, part two and part three. If you’re familiar with Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks, you probably think of them as malicious acts used to squelch free speech and silence opposition. But the first denial of…
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Janine Warner and David LaFontaine | This is the third part in a four-part series about journalism and cybersecurity. See part one, part two and part four. If you’re a small, independent news publisher, the idea that the biggest internet company in the world is ready to step in and protect you from Distributed Denial of Service…
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By Zibiah Dabbason Media has an interdependent relationship with the society that shapes,defines and sets limitations to media. In turn, media reflects and shapes the social reality, and defines the norms, values and standards for the society, thus, influencing the public opinion. Media has great influence on shaping the public opinion. Essentially, public opinion is…
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The internet for journalism is now like the air you breathe,” said Befeqadu Hailu, an Ethiopian journalist and a member of the Zone 9 blogger collective who was arrested in April 2014 and charged with terrorism. “Without the internet, modern journalism means nothing.” Yet, the internet is something that journalists in multiple African countries are…
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Jorge Luis Sierra | Journalists who work in authoritarian environments tend to be under electronic surveillance. Sometimes the surveillance is being conducted at a mass scale, rather than directed at a specific target, and is intended to track what journalists in general are doing and what stories they are investigating. Other times, it is targeted…
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Reports reaching Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) shows that a female radio reporter, Halima Aliyu Kofar Doka was on Saturday 12th August, 2017 assaulted while carrying out her duty as a journalist in Zaria, Kaduna North west Nigeria. Halima is a Zaria Based radio reporter with DITV Alheri Radio, and the host of a women’s…
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