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KAS Media Africa Local Journalism Award 2026 - Call for Submissions

Celebrating excellence in local reporting across Sub-Saharan Africa

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Managing Conflict in Today’s Newsroom Training 2025 - Nairobi, Kenya

This workshop covers the key competencies required to deal with conflict situations in today's newsrooms

KAS Media Africa collaborate to make the four-day training course for newsroom managers, starting on 1 December, possible.

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World Conference of Science Journalists 2025

Science Journalism and Social Justice: Building Understanding and Resilience

For the first time on African soil, the World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) will take place in Pretoria, South Africa, from 1-5 December 2025. KAS Media Africa is happy to support the participation of African journalists at this landmark event, dedicated to strengthening science journalism and its role in promoting understanding and social justice across borders.

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2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The global event, supported by KAS Media Africa, convenes innovative journalists from around the world

This year’s Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be held from 20 to 24 November 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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2025 African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) - Johannesburg, South Africa

The AIJC is the largest meetup of working investigative journalists on the continent

Scheduled from 5 to 7 November 2025, the AIJC creates insights into the most innovative journalism models from across Africa

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Cadenabbia Leadership Forum for Public Service Media from Africa and Europe 2025, Cadenabbia, Italy

Cross-continental Platform to ex-change ideas on challenges faced in public service broadcasting across Africa and Europe

The Forum, being the first of its kind between Africa and Europe, is scheduled from 5th to 8th of November 2025 in Italy at the former summer residence of the first German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer

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2025 IPI Conference and Media Innovation Festival in Vienna, Austria

The world's leading journalists and media thinkers will come together to ensure a free media for future generations as a global community

KAS Media Africa will be part of this year’s IPI World Congress from 23 to 25 October 2025, which takes place in Vienna under the theme “Defending the Future of Free Media”.

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First Reporter Slam South Africa in Johannesburg

The entertaining live competition, in which journalists present their media stories in a creative way, is coming to Johannesburg, South Africa!

KAS Media Africa and Media Monitoring Africa are presenting the first Reporter Slam South Africa on 15 October 2025 as part of the Media Freedom Festival 2025. This time, journalists from South Africa and Germany will present their courageous work.

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Media Freedom Festival 2025 in Johannesburg, South Africa

Taking place from 14 to 16 October 2025, the festival will explore the theme of resilience in democracy and the role of the media in this context

The three-day festival will engage journalists, media practitioners, legal minds and civil society on pertinent issues related to media freedom, the impact of artificial intelligence on journalism and the erosion of public trust.

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2025 Public Service Media Symposium, Johannesburg, South Africa

Discussing the challenges faced by African public broadcasters in the digital era

On the 3rd of October 2025, delegates of public broadcaster’s exchange ideas to learn from each other’s issues concerning funding and adjusting to contemporary developments at the annual PSM Symposium.

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Africa Facts Summit 2025 in Dakar, Senegal

At the 4th Africa Facts Summit, critical themes will include tackling disinformation in conflict zones and uncovering the mechanics of disinformation campaigns

Supported by KAS Media Africa the 2025 Africa Facts Summit takes place on 1st and 2nd October in Dakar, Senegal. It marks the first time that the summit is hosted in a French-speaking country.

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Africa and the Social Media Giants

KAS Media Africa Conference in Accra, Ghana

In June 2022, KAS Media Africa hosted a conference on social media and its particular relationship with African users. The conference brought together 18 participants from eight countries, including Ethiopia, eSwatini, Kenya and Germany.

Book Launch: Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa (Second Edition)

O Lançamento da Obra (Manual de Direito da Comunicação Social na África Austral – 2ª Edição)

The latest edition of the handbook is more extensive, covers 13 countries, runs to three volumes and includes three entirely new country chapters Mauritius, Mozambique and the Seychelles.

Trust in Media – in Africa and Europe

KAS Media Africa Conference at Lake Como, Italy

Trust is a currency for serious journalism - repeatedly explaining to the readers, viewers or listeners how news is made and verified. How to achieve this kind of journalism, often with a new type of young journalist who are more mechanical about news production than they are reporters, was one of the questions that 13 senior media professionals from seven countries in Africa and Europe discussed at the Villa La Collina in Italy.

KAS convenes 2022 #AfricaBlogging conference in Côte d’Ivoire

Political blogging is set to grow as audiences search for content that is truthful and contextualized

Participants from 12 countries gather in Côte d’Ivoire to exchange skills with colleagues from across Africa to discuss developments in the blogosphere.

New life for local journalism

Editors, reporters and academics gather in Malawi to discuss local media

Many journalists who do local news have low self-esteem, says Abdul Brima from Freetown in Sierra Leone. The former KAS journalism scholar was one of 20 editors, reporters and media managers who gathered from February 28th to March 3rd on the shores of Lake Malawi to discuss ways to improve the quality of local news in African media.

Reporting in Covid times and beyond

Health journalism takes centre stage

In late January, KAS Media Africa hosted a conference on health journalism in Francophone Africa that brought together 17 participants to Dakar, Senegal. Themed “Reporting in Covid times and beyond”, the conference drew participants from 13 nations including Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic and Nigeria.

KAS-PTCIJ-Debunk Exchange Programme

The First of Its Kind

In 2021, KAS Media Africa based in Johannesburg, South Africa, came together with Debunk Media, Nairobi, Kenya and the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) in Abuja, Nigeria to create a continental exchange programme for journalists. The first edition of this programme immersed two journalists, Maxine Danso from Ghana, and Lilian Mutinda from Kenya, in the newsrooms and culture of their hosts for a month respectively.

Failing to plan means planning to fail

10th KAS E-lection Bridge held in Gaborone, Botswana

Political parties have suffered during the pandemic, just as society as a whole has. There is a serious lack of programmatic approaches and young people who are getting involved will do so in civil society but not necessarily in parties. These and other challenges of party work in Africa were discussed at the high-level 10th Election Bridge with politicians from 15 different countries on the African continent, Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone.

Book Launch: Pioneers, Rebels and a few Villains – 150 Years of Journalism in Eastern Africa

The publication pays tribute to the important role that journalism played and still plays in the region.

In 13 chapters the authors look at the role of Asian journalists in East Africa, and the important part that photo journalism and cartoonists play.

Experts put political speech writing under microscope

From the terraces of Aristotle’s rhetoric of persuasion in speech writing and other examples, the event proved that this subject is shaped by the political environment.

KAS Media Africa in October hosted a conference on political speech writing. The participants - speech writers, academics and communicators from seven countries - used the event to share insights, exchange notes and network.