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Newsletter n°19 |
10.11.04 |
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| The Business of Newspapers
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| Online Publishing: Independent Media Challenge Government through Internet in Zimbabwe |
Zimbabweans are combating their governments intense media suppression online. Websites are blooming on the Internet from those determined to bring non-government controlled news to their fellow countrymen, both within Zimbabwe and exiled around the world.
Three sites currently in operation illustrate the success this new method of reporting Zimbabwes news has had. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from Zimbabwe and around the world log onto the sites daily.
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| Management: Learning from Across the Continent II |
In June 2004, Crispin Tulay, editor of The Vanguard newspaper, based in Liberia, travelled to South Africa to participate in a week-long newspaper management course with a select group of editors from the Southern African region. The newspaper editors were trained in various aspects of newspaper management such as: Leadership Skills, Change, Circulation, Budget, Advertising and Team Management.
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| NEWS FROM THE MEDIA SCENE
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| Gambia: Government Removes Controversial Media Act |
The Jammeh administration agrees to dismantle regulatory body that has staged independent media against the government for past two years.
On 21 October, Gambias Council of Ministers made the decision to revoke the controversial National Media Commission Act, which was passed in 2002.
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| Senegal: Islamic Newspaper Goes French |
The Senegalese press scene saw the arrival of a newcomer on 20 October when the first issue of the French language Assawha bimonthly was published. Assawha has been on sale in Senegal since 1992, but this is the first time the Arabic language paper has been published in French.
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| TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
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| Videoconference about the Role of Media in Fight Against AIDS |
African journalists are invited to participate in a videoconference on November 18 to discuss the media’s role in combating HIV and AIDS. Organized by the World Bank, the discussion will focus on ongoing international media-training initiatives related to the pandemic.
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| FELLOWSHIPS
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| South Africans eligible for German bursary |
The German-based International Journalists Programmes (IJP) will offer a bursary to up to five young South Africans and up to five young German journalists. For two months the South African delegates will have the chance to work in Germany. They will be integrated into the day-to-day journalism of their host newsroom while also researching stories for their home media.
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