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Other articles in the RAP 21 Newsletter n° 90/2002:
Playing on nearness and specificity
The first woman editor-in-chief in Zimbabwe
Press freedom deteriorates world-wide in 2002
Regional news from around the continent
Political reporting course
"Media in Africa" conference
Hellman/Hammet fellowships of Human Rights Watch & Fellowship program at Yale University
Newsletter n° 90
CONTENT & ETHICS

HIV, Alternative Press & Corruption


-  A manual to improve the coverage of HIV/AIDS in Africa

The International Women’s Media Foundation published a manual - Reporting on HIV/AIDS: A Resource Guide - as a tool for media professionals to use in improving and increasing their coverage of HIV/AIDS in Africa. It provides guidelines and tips for reporters based on the advice of experienced journalists from Africa and other regions of the world, who shared their expertise in interviews, publications, and online workshops.

Specifically, the African Women’s Media Foundation, a project of the International Women’s Media Foundation, held two training workshops online on reporting on HIV/AIDS in 2000 and 2001. Some 270 women journalists from 12 African countries participated. They reviewed the role of the media in reporting on HIV/AIDS and examined the way that the pandemic is increasingly impacting women’s lives.

The manual also includes information on international organisations, United States government agencies, African-based healthcare and advocacy organisations, web sites, and Internet forums concerned with HIV/AIDS. Each entry includes a short description and contact information.

Source: The Communication Initiative

-  The Alternative Press in South Africa

The International Academic Publishers released an anthology, written by Keyan Tomaselli and Eric Louw, which focuses on the history of black newspapers from the time of the missionary press to the early 1990s, examining struggles of this press and its editors during different periods.

Source: The Communication Initiative

-  Confronting Corruption Source Book

In 2002, Transparency International (TI) launched a Francophone Africa adaptation of its Confronting Corruption Source Book in both English and French for West African journalists and social justice activists.

Compiled by 100 participants from Francophone African countries over a two-year period, the handbook is designed to improve the quality and depth of reporting on the abuses of power and resources in the region. It provides practical tools like research strategies, lists of anti-corruption resources, reviews of successful anti-corruption investigations, and good governance benchmarks.

The book contains a formula for determining the real costs of corruption in public administration and an assessment of the loss of investment, the socio-economic costs of poverty and the consequences of violence and ethnic conflict, and economic collapse. The publication also attempts to provide frameworks for systematic analysis of institutional weaknesses that cause corruption. All suggestions, strategies and tools are illustrated with case studies from the region.

The book is available in Albanian, French, Spanish, and English.

A print version costs 50 US dollars for an individual or an NGO, and 95 US dollars for a corporation.

Source: The Communication Initiative
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