Inspiring the Producers and Custodians of African Media Collections
Posted in October 2009 on Oct 22nd, 2009
In his ‘Circling the Drain’ essay, Mark Loundy discusses the crisis that has hit the newspaper industry of the US. His main argument: that they’re compromising their editorial quality by cutting costs there in order to fund the high costs of printing. “In case you haven’t noticed, printed newspapers became irrelevant to the average person […]
Posted in October 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Oct 20th, 2009
Lagos is a city to behold! It took me 4.5 hours to fly from Lagos to Nairobi last Tuesday. The previous day I had gone to see Emeke Izeze, MD of The Guardian and Gbenga Adefaye, Managing Editor of The Vanguard Newspaper in Lagos. I had left The Vanguard at 3:30 pm to take a […]
Posted in October 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Oct 7th, 2009
By Emmanuel Kele Twenty-four young African Journalists from twelve countries of Africa have concluded their Twenty-Ten World Cup media coverage workshop in Cairo, Egypt. The workshop brought together a genuine united Africa from South Africa, Angola, via Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Liberia, Ghana, and many other countries from the continent. The one week workshop which […]
Posted in October 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Oct 5th, 2009
A key milestone in the Twenty Ten project has been passed as the first radio features were uploaded to Africa Media Online’s new MEMAT system. These three audio features are the first of the 11 that were produced by the ‘Allstars’ who trained in Cairo over the past two weeks, where they attended key matches […]
Posted in October 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Oct 1st, 2009
The Egypt workshop has just drawn to a close and Dominique landed back in South Africa today. In the meantime the Africa Media Online team has been hard at work getting the output of the Twenty Ten project spread far and wide. We have put them up on the features page of our own web […]