As part of strategy to ensure community inclusiveness and ownership in the “Advocating for the Prevention of Gender Based Violence” Project in Kaduna, AMDF recently visited the District Heads of Kufana and Doka to garner their support. The project seeks to curb incidences of Gender Based Violence in six Communities each of Kufana and Doka…
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By Sekyen Dadik Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) Congratulates Gloria Kasang Bulus, the Executive Director, Bridge that Gap Initiative, over the prestigious Climate Reality’s Green Ring Award by Nobel Laureate and former US Vice President, Al Gore. AMDF is happy to celebrate with Gloria, with whom we have partnered to promote climate issues…
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Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) congratulates Didam Laah Manasseh, an erudite Nigerian broadcaster, over his selection into the 2020/2021 Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship Programme (KIF). Didam is one of the 16 young Nigerians selected out of a pool of 1,711 applicants for the 2020/2021 Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship Programme (KIF), starting August 17, 2020. The…
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By Eugenia Abu For years as an active Broadcast Journalist, I hardly got time off and was on duty back to back as the news never ends. This state of things was daunting for my family and pretty stressful for me. While people took breaks at weekends, I would be on duty on a fine…
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The novel coronavirus has defied geographical and political boundaries, infecting over 1.5 million people as of April 10. Unlike disasters, a pandemic’s impact is not confined to a single location, or a group of victims, and the potential for exposure is always present, yet unpredictable. The age of COVID-19 has brought a number of new…
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The novel coronavirus has defied geographical and political boundaries, infecting over 1.5 million people as of April 10. Unlike disasters, a pandemic’s impact is not confined to a single location, or a group of victims, and the potential for exposure is always present, yet unpredictable. The age of COVID-19 has brought a number of new…
Read MoreJournalism educators and students can access free resources. Poynter is offering its online catalog free to help those affected by COVID-19. The catalog includes introductory courses such as “The language primer: basics of grammar, punctuation and word use,” “Math and numeracy primer: how to write about numbers” and News literacy primer: how to evaluate information;”…
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Applications are opened for the BudgIT Civic Hive Media Fellowship Program 2020. The BudgIT Media Fellowship Program starts in the year 2017, where it featured journalists who were focused on writing human angle stories that raised advocacy on topics like budget access, project tracking, use of extractive revenues, social justice, anti-corruption, open governments and transparency.…
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English-speaking journalists worldwide can apply for a global journalism program in China. The School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University offers a Master of Arts degree in global business journalism, which seeks to train future journalists who can help the public understand the complexities of global business and the economy. The two-year program, a…
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New York, March 5, 2020 — Authorities in Cameroon should not contest journalist Adalbert Hiol’s appeal of a false news and defamation conviction and should let his newspaper publish freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On November 7, 2019, authorities in Douala, a coastal city in southwest Cameroon, ordered Hiol, publisher of the…
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