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Newsletter n°12
23.04.08
NEWS FROM THE MEDIA SCENE
Media at a Crossroad
The media stakeholders in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi have warned that a myriad of archaic colonial legislation and an explosion of media outlets following partial liberalization of the sector endanger professional news media.
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Ali Dilem: 10,000 cartoons and 50 lawsuits
He is by far the most famous cartoonist in North Africa, and has a solid international reputation. His cartoons appear daily in the Algerian Liberté newspaper and on the Kiosque programme of the Francophone TV5. He took the grand prize in the "Caustic Humour" category at Saint-Just-le-Martel’s 26th International Cartooning Exposition in 2007.
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The Editors Weblog Interviews Nigeria’s The Punch on Facing the Future
In the next 18 months, our plans to move rapidly to information/content provider would have reached a fairly advanced stage. We’re right now working on exploiting the mobile phone platform. There are current over 40 million mobile phone users in Nigeria and our plans to stream the news on mobiles phones should be on before March 2009.
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PRESS FREEDOM
Freedom Newspaper Finds Freedom Elsewhere to Serve Gambia
In mid-March 2008 editor-in-chief Pa Nderry M’Bai of Gambia’s online news source Freedom Newspaper received numerous emails from concerned readers in Gambia informing him that they were unable to view the website. The government had blocked the website-a notorious tactic still familiar even to M’Bai who is now based in North Carolina, United States.
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Sudanese Newspapers Topple Censorship with a United Front
A concerted effort of Sudanese newspapers has resulted in the government rescinding the 6 February 2008 reimplementation of pre-print censorship of the privately-owned press in Khartoum. The government claimed to reinstate the law after the private media mentioned several times that the government was backing Chadian rebels.
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Alerts from the Continent
On 21 April, freelance journalist and Internet writer Frank Chikowore was charged with “public violence” a week after his arrest in Zimbabwe, in relation to the burning of a bus on 15 April. He has reportedly been denied medical attention while in detention and some sources suggest that his charges have been fabricated.
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CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
Health Reporting Conference to be Held in South Africa
Helping journalists rise to the challenge of consistent and accurate healthcare reporting in South Africa is among the goals of an upcoming conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Photojournalism Course Offering in South Africa
A five-day photojournalism course in South Africa will teach working and student photojournalists how to tell stories visually and personally.
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AWARDS OPPORTUNITIES
European Commission Launches 16th Edition of the Lorenzo Natali Prize
The Lorenzo Natali Prize is awarded to journalists defending human rights, democracy and development and is open to all journalistic media: radio, television, written press, Internet. The Natali Prize was established in 1992 and is open to the press worldwide. In 2007, 1500 journalists submitted work from 164 countries.
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Awards Event Open for South African Women in All Media Sectors
The 2008 Vodacom Women in The Media Awards in South Africa will recognize and honour women who have made a significant impact in the media industry.
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