The dangers of reporting on Myanmar’s border-security forces and their business interests. Journalist Naw Betty Han rubs the bruises on her wrists left by the handcuffs she was forced to wear while detained for 27 hours by the Kayin State’s…
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Overcoming a government crackdown on social media in Laos
Influential Facebook users, pejoratively referred to as net idols, are facing retribution for their online posts. Vientiane, Laos – Inside a packed lecture hall at the American Centre in the capital Vientiane, 60 National University of Laos students sit surrounded…
South Sudan’s Young Reporters Independence Day Exhibit Displays True Promise
MINGKAMAN, South Sudan – To celebrate July 9, South Sudan’s fifth independence anniversary, Internews hosted a multimedia exhibit featuring photographs and audio produced by Mingkaman Young Reporters. This is a group of youth from Mingkaman, Awerial County I had trained…
Tagged with: 2016 Juba crisis, Awerial County, independence day, Internews, journalism, media development, Mingkaman, Mingkaman 100 FM, Mingkaman Young Reporters, Multimedia exhibit, Photography, radio, South Sudan
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Posted in Print, Radio
Ethiopia’s “Terrorist” Journalists and Bloggers
NAIROBI, Kenya – A cursory glance at the headlines shows that Ethiopia has one of Africa’s fastest growing economies. But the noise generated by the hyperbolic international media is drowning out the critical voices. Political opposition is being strangled by…
Media Literacy Talks for Tanzania’s Youth
I’m on the back of a boda-boda motorcycle taxi, heading uphill, when my driver, Nuru, points out the drive-way leading to the house of Tanzania’s former prime minister and current presidential hopeful, Edward Lowassa. Not even five seconds after we…
Tagged with: Africa, arts & culture, Arusha, corruption, girls school, journalism, maasai, Mambo Jambo Radio, media development, media literacy, media4dev, MWEDO, Orkeeswa school, politics, poverty, tanzania, TGFT, walking tour, youth
Posted in Print
Posted in Print
The slum series – Voice of Kibera
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kibera is known as Africa’s largest slum. It’s located in Nairobi, Kenya and home to a new media renaissance. Featuring the voices of Vincent Achuka, editor and journalist at the Ghetto Mirror, Sande Wycliffe, programmer at the…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Africa, change, Ghetto Mirror, journalism, kenya, Kibera, media development, Mtani Insight, nairobi, new media, newspaper, online news platform, renaissance, slum series, Voice of Kibera, youth
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Posted in Radio
From Accra to Arusha: A journalist’s journey across Africa
Okay, I know it’s cliche to travel to Africa and expect to launch my career as an international journalist. But, hey, if it worked out for so many others, why not give it a try? Of course I spent six…
Tagged with: #media, #RightsMedia, A journalist's journey, accra, Adam's adventures, Arusha, Children's Radio Foundation, farm radio international, Ghana, JHR, journalism, Journalists for Human Rights, malawi, press freedom, Reporters Without Borders, RSF, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, tanzania, ZBS Malawi, Zodiak Radio
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