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Knight International Fellowship for Sub-Saharan Africa at International Center for Journalists

Posted by on July 25, 2011 Comments Off

Sub-Saharan Africa: Pilot mobile news in Africa,
Justin Arenstein is piloting mobile news services at four major African news organizations affiliated with the African Media Initiative. With this delivery system, media organizations in Africa can develop a new stream of revenue. The first project is being launched in Ghana, building on the success of Knight Fellow Sylvia Vollenhoven. Arenstein will hold a special session on this pilot program at the African Media Leaders Forum in Tunis in November. Arenstein also will work with the African Media Initiative to create an African Media Innovation Challenge to encourage news organizations to use new technology in innovative ways. He already has funding from Google for the Innovation Challenge, while AMI has a commitment from Omidyar Network to match funds for the Challenge. Arenstein is a South African media owner and innovator and an internationally recognized expert on new media technologies. He is co-founder of Africa’s first rural-based independent investigative news agency, African Eye News Service (AENS). His news service received the Knight International Journalism Award in 2000. Arenstein was a Knight Stanford Fellow in 2009-10.
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http://knight.icfj.org/OurWork/FellowshipsOverview/SubSaharanAfricabrMobileNewsinAfrica/tabid/1926/Default.aspx

Knight International Journalism Fellowship for Tanzanians at International Center for Journalists

Posted by on July 25, 2011 Comments Off

Tanzania: Putting the Spotlight on Rural Development,
A special agricultural news weekly, launched by Knight International Fellow Joachim Buwembo, called for the government to improve the faltering dairy industry as a way to reduce poverty. Read the story

Joachim Buwembo helped to create Kilimo Kwanza (Agriculture First), now a financially vibrant weekly publication focusing on agriculture issues. The eight-page supplement is published in English and Kiswahili by the Guardian Newspapers, the country’s top independent newspaper group. Since it began, the supplement has featured more than 200 stories. Some reports led to new bank loans for farmers to buy imported tractors that lay idle as well as to increased government investment in dairy equipment and irrigation.

Kilimo Kwanza attracts enough advertising to cover production costs. Its success has prompted competitors to beef up their coverage: Business Times now publishes a weekly agriculture page, and the government-owned Daily News pays more attention to farm issues than ever before. Buwembo has turned production over to a team he has trained, including an editor and a dedicated corps of reporters. He is now developing a network of rural citizen journalists who will send news tips that urban journalists can follow up on, providing a more comprehensive view of poverty issues around the country. The citizen journalists, all of whom are full-time or part-time farmers, will begin sending reports this year on farm conditions and agricultural programs in their areas. The World Vision Institute is helping to support Buwembo’s citizen-journalism project, covering five training sessions for 24 people.

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http://knight.icfj.org/OurWork/FellowshipsOverview/TanzaniaAgricultureFirst/tabid/1363/Default.aspx