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KAS Media Africa supports Africa Check Fellowship Programme 2025

A Francophone fellowship programme strengthening fact-checking in Africa in Dakar, Senegal.

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July 14 - 17, 2025

First Pan-African Media Councils’ Summit 2025, Arusha, Tanzania

KAS Media Africa supports the 2025 Africa Media Councils Summit, advancing media and communication regulations for journalism excellence in Africa

From the 14th to 17th of July 2025, KAS Media Africa will be supporting the first Pan-African Media Councils’ Summit 2025 hosted by the Network of Independent Media Councils of Africa (NIMCA) in collaboration with the Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) and East Africa Press Councils (EAPC) in Tanzania. It brings together members of the World Association of Press Councils (WAPC), NIMCA and EAPC to review their past achievements, current challenges and future goals.

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August 22 - Sep 06, 2024

Africa Check Fellowship Programme 2024 in Dakar, Senegal

Strengthening fact-checking in West Africa

Forum

fully booked
June 16 - 18, 2024

Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum

Sharing Solutions

The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum offers a unique interdisciplinary platform for media professionals as well as decision-makers from politics, civil society, culture, education, business, and science from all over the world to get together and to learn from each other as part of an intercultural exchange since 2008.

Germany

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June 6, 2024

Reporter Slam Africa 2024

Entertaining stage format with journalists in cooperation with the Reporter Slam Organisation Germany and African citizens.

The event brings journalists into the spotlight and challenges them to tell a unique and interesting way about their work. At the event journalists will compete against each other and present their story as creative as possible and give a behind the scenes look at their life as a journalist. The end of the event the journalist whose story is appeals to the public will be named the Slammer for 2024.

Cape Town South Africa

Workshop

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April 28 - May 02, 2024

Summer School for Political Speechwriters

Political speech writers exchange notes and share insights

Italy

Specialist conference

fully booked
January 30 - Feb 01, 2024

Local Journalism Conference 2024

New Challenges for Local Journalism

Local news is the solution for the survival of ailing media.

Workshop

November 13 - 17, 2023

Managing Conflict in Today's Newsroom 2023

Executive Education Course

Today’s newsroom environment is not devoid of conflict. With many competing interests, especially the business demand for media survival while journalists do what they know best – tell compelling stories – there is bound to be conflict.

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African Press Council Leaders Explore Media Regulation in Berlin, Germany and Brussels, Belgium

From 2 to 6 June, KAS Media Africa facilitated a five-day dialogue programme, fostering peer learning and cooperation on independent media regulation across continents.

Eight senior members of press councils from seven African countries visited Berlin and Brussels to engage with European institutions and experts on media regulation. The programme supported exchange on tackling disinformation, understanding EU legislative frameworks, and strengthening the newly founded Network of Independent Media Councils in Africa (NIMCA).

July 2, 2025
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Reporter Slam Africa 2025

And the Winner is ... Uganda!

In partnership with The Reporter Slam – Germany’s most entertaining stage format for journalists - KAS Media Africa hosted the second edition of Reporter Slam in Africa on Thursday, May 22 2025, Lagos, Nigeria.

Rebecca Sibanda
May 27, 2025
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KAS Media Africa supported the International Religion Journalism Conference in Nairobi, Kenya

A Pan-Continental Dialogue on Faith, Media, Responsibility and Society

From April 14-16, 2025, the KAS Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa supported an exciting religion journalism conference, uniting journalists and media experts to promote balanced religion reporting.

April 24, 2025
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KAS Media Africa Launches "Currents of Truth" - A Comic Book on Journalism in the AI Era

On March 19, 2025, KAS Media Africa hosted the official launch of Currents of Truth, in Johannesburg, South Africa - our first-ever comic book exploring investigative journalism, media ethics, and the fight against disinformation in an AI-driven world.

March 24, 2025
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Adenauer Media Lecture in Johannesburg

Lecture with Dr. Peter Frey, former Editor-in-Chief of the ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) on "The Role of Public Service Broadcasting in a Democracy - Lessons from Germany"

March 20, 2025
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KAS Media Africa’s Local Journalism Conference in Addis Ababa

From 4 to 6 March 2025, we hosted our International Roundtable on Local Journalism - “2024, The Super Election Year” - in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Our event brought together journalists and media experts to tackle the challenges of election reporting, disinformation, and press freedom across Africa.

March 12, 2025
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Launch Europe Tour for our new Study “AI-Generated Disinformation in Europe and Africa”

From March 17-20, 2025, we presented our new study in Berlin and Brussels to a broad audience as well as to a select group of experts.

February 26, 2025
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KAS MEDIA AFRICA AWARD FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF THE 2025 CONTEST

The jury is out and are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 contest!

The candidates were chosen out of over 30 submissions from 16 countries in Africa, across the anglophone and francophone regions. These submissions had an important focus on local reporting during elections.

February 19, 2025
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Celebrating Excellence in Journalism: Reporter Slam Finale Berlin

Melony Ishola, Winner of Reporter Slam Africa 2024, Represents Africa in Berlin

On the 18th of January, Reporter Slam Africa 2024 winner, Melony Ishola from Lagos, Nigeria, competed alongside journalists from Germany and Malta at the prestigious grand finale of the Reporter Slam in Berlin. The event highlighted the power of journalism to engage and inform, even in these challenging times.

January 22, 2025
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Fostering Leadership in this year’s “Managing Conflict in Today’s Newsroom”, in Nairobi, Kenya

Shaping the future of African journalism through collaboration and education

This year’s third edition of “Managing Conflict in Today’s Newsroom” concluded successfully in Nairobi, bringing together 15 newsroom leaders from across Sub-Saharan Africa.

December 11, 2024
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