The Covid 19 pandemic has no doubt changed alot of engagements globally. For a lot of endeavours it is no longer business as usual. This is not any different for journalism practice, especially in terms of content generation. Hitherto, journalists especially development journalists had access to unreached communities and physical access to other news sources…
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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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Dear Social Media and Content-Sharing Platforms: As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, the importance of your platforms and their real world impact has never been clearer. Your platforms are being used to communicate, assemble, research the virus, provide mutual aid, and more. We understand that many platforms have increased their reliance on automated…
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Background: The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 31, 2020. Following further assessment, it raised its global risk from “high” to “very high” on February 28, and finally declared it a pandemic on March 11. The COVID-19, also known as novel coronavirus, is currently spreading across…
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The Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) joins the global community to celebrate the 2020 International Women’s Day as the organization introduces its Women in Media Project to empower female journalists to grow as media professionals; reporting the untold stories of women and mentoring them to become leaders in the news industry. Every year, March, 8…
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State-owned Kenya Film Commission (KFC) inks agreement deal with Chinese pay-TV company StarTimes to boost the local film industry. The CEO of state-owned Kenya Film Commission (KFC), Timothy Owase, stated that under the agreement StarTimes ON, an online mobile application will be the dedicated platform where the shortlisted films for the ninth edition of Kalasha…
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The National Broadcasting Commission of Nigeria reports that plans are underway to begin analogue switch-off in six localities, starting with Abuja next year. The Commission also announced that the federal government will issue a new timeline and schedule for the Digital Switch Over. Speaking at the 72nd General Assembly of Nigerian Broadcasting Organizations in Lagos,…
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By Peter Guest When Singaporeans Ho Jia Jian and Derek Tan built their first internet TV platform a decade ago, the iPad was still a year away and Netflix had yet to break out of the U.S. Over the intervening years, the internet has fundamentally disrupted how video content is produced, distributed and consumed, from the proliferation of on-demand TV platforms to YouTube’s…
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By Joy Gadani Africa Media Development Foundation, has flagged-off its 2019 Journalism Skills Advancements Project (JSAP) in Kaduna, northern Nigeria. The project which aims at strengthening the scope and capacity of participants, will over the next ten months build capacity of reporters, especially those without journalism background, to an acceptable basic journalism level.…
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Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has tasked Nigerian journalists to bring Climate Change and Environment reporting to limelight. At a review meeting with participants of the Climate Change and Environment reporting project held on Thursday, 11th October, 2018 in Kaduna, North West Nigeria, Coordinator of the organization, Sekyen Dadik, charged journalists to ensure their reports…
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