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| Newsletter n° 2 |
19.01.05 |
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| The Business of Newspapers
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| ***RAP 21 Launches Africas First Ever Prize for Newspaper Management *** |
 African newspapers of all sizes are invited to showcase excellence in Media Management.
Newspapers all over the world are having to fight harder than ever for success in todays media environment, and Africa is no exception. Through this prize, we aim to recognise those newspapers which profit from innovative management and business strategies to overcome these obstacles to make their newspapers a success, says Timothy Balding, Director General of the World Association of Newspapers.
No newspaper is too large or too small to qualify for the RAP 21 newspaper management prize. We are searching for excellence in management and leadership, and this can be found in a newspaper with a circulation of 500 or 5000.
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| Readership & Circulation: A magazine for the Illiterate |
Somoya Sila is a monthly magazine published in Guinea. What makes this publication unique is that it is written entirely in NKO - an alphabet that was invented in 1949 to allow the people of the Mande language group to express themselves in writing. More than twenty million people in West Africa speak one of the forty languages that belong to the Mande group.
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| NEWS FROM THE MEDIA SCENE
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| New journalism school giving press direction in Mozambique |
Travelling to a foreign country used to be the best option for aspiring journalists in Mozambique to receive professional training. However, the recent introduction of the countrys first university-level journalism school has changed its once dire media education situation.
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| French speaking journalists participate in Reuters training course |
Fourteen journalists from eight French-speaking African countries took part in a Reuters Foundation training course on Journalistic Techniques in Dakar December 2004. The journalists, averaging 30 years of age, came from Senegal, Cameroon, Benin, Chad, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
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| Arabic and English language survival guide released for African journalists |
The job of a journalist is to tell the story, not to become the story. A journalists who puts him or herself needlessly at risk is behaving in an unprofessional manner; one that could ultimately prevent the story from being told or the picture from being taken, reads introduction of a new handbook launched in both Arabic and English by the International Federation of Journalists.
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