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| Newsletter n°19 |
19.06.08 |
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| NEWS FROM THE MEDIA SCENE
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| Going Mobile? The Punch Leads the Way in Exploiting A New Outlet in Nigeria |
 Responding to the dramatic increase in mobile telephone use in Nigeria, The Punch, the country’s leading newspaper, will launch the country’s first full mobile news service this month. “In 1999 there were 400,000 mobile telephone users in Nigeria. This year’s figure is about 40 million,” said Azubuike Ishiekwene, executive director of publications at Punch Nigeria Limited to RAP 21.
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| Rural Cameroon Magazine Prints in Europe to Improve African Image |
In March 2008, Bernard Njonga launched the Cameroonian magazine L’Eclat d’Afrique in an effort to break African stereotypes that dominate in the European media. At the same time, the monthly magazine “is the first magazine devoted to rural people in Cameroon,” according Njonga. As a multipurpose magazine, it does not only serve the rural populations of Cameroon; 50 percent of the readership is based in Europe where the magazine is also printed.
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| New Journalism School to Open in Morocco |
In September, the Moroccan Ecomédias press group will open a new journalism school in Casablanca. Forty students will get to be trained in everything from journalistic writing to how to prepare a radio show and also learn about country’s press laws at the ESJC (Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme et de Communication).
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| PRESS FREEDOM
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| ‘Hostile Foreign Press’ in Zimbabwe Classified as ‘Luxury’ |
For the past two weeks, The Zimbabwean, a twice-weekly paper which is printed in South Africa and mainly distributed in Zimbabwe, has been forced to pay a weekly 10,000 English Pounds import tax for every edition of the newspaper distributed in Zimbabwe. At this rate, editor of the paper Wilf Mbanga told RAP 21 that he will be forced to pay over one million English Pounds after one year in duties. These harrowing numbers follow the burning of a truck that was transporting 60,000 copies of the Sunday edition of The Zimbabwean from South Africa to Zimbabwe on 24 May.
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| Somali Media Fraternity Asks International Media Community to Help Injured Journalist |
Somali media practitioners and the Eastern Africa Media Institute is appealing to the international media community to assist in providing medical help to journalist Abdikahim Omar Jumaleh, who was wounded in a shooting by unknown gunmen in Mogadishu on 11 August 2007. His left hand was severely injured and he remains in poor condition nearly one year after the attack.
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| Alerts from the Continent |
In Ghana, Saikou Ceesay, a reporter with the Banjul-based opposition Foroyaa was arrested and detained overnight at a police station in the Kombo province on 15 June. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) reported that Ceesay was arrested while investigating the arrest and detention of managing director Dida Halake of the pro-government Daily Observer, who has since been granted bail. He was reported to have been harassed and insulted while in detention.
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| CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
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| Scholarships Available to Attend the Highway Africa Conference |
Journalists, bloggers, students, publishers and other media practitioners can apply to attend the annual Highway Africa Conference, which this year will focus on the emergence of citizen journalism, from 8-10 September.
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| Leadership Development Programme for Media Managers |
African news editors, producers, channel managers as well as other leaders in the print media or broadcasting fields can apply to participate in a leadership program in Parktown, Johannesburg from 30 July to 8 August. The deadline to apply is 27 June.
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