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Reporter Slam Africa 2025
The most entertaining live format for journalists is coming to Africa again. Our second edition of the Reporter Slam will take place this year in Lagos, Nigeria.
On 22 May, Lagos, Nigeria, will be the stage for Reporter Slam Africa 2025. Six Journalists from Sub-Saharan Africa will compete in a lively showdown, offering the audience a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their work as journalists. The slammers are challenged to present their stories in a unique and creative way. The journalist whose story appeals the most to the public will be named the Slammer of 2025!
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Dialogue Programme to Berlin and Brussels for independent Press Councils from Sub-Saharan Africa
KAS Media Africa aims to strengthen African independent press councils by hosting a dialogue program to share experiences and knowledge from Europe.
The Dialogue Program for Independent Press Councils from Sub-Saharan Africa will take place from the 2nd to 6th of June 2025, in Berlin and Brussels. The program will bring together stakeholders from Africa and Europe to discuss the fight against disinformation and fake news. The program will provide a platform to exchange valuable insights and experiences, building on the recent creation of the Pan-African Network of Independent Media Councils in Africa (NIMCA).
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Global Media Forum 2025 – “AI Disinformation & Countermeasures in Europe and Africa"
An interactive workshop providing journalists with knowledge of how to engage with AI and disinformation
From the 7th to 8th of July 2025, KAS Media Africa will convene the Global Media Forum 2025 in Bonn, Germany, dealing with the dangers of disinformation and AI. In the format of an interactive workshop, attendees are offered presentations, best practice examples and exercises. They will leave equipped with practical tools, policy insights, and a roadmap for fostering digital resilience in the age of AI disinformation.
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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.
From the 7th to 22nd of July 2025, KAS Media Africa will be supporting the sixth Africa Check Fellowship initiative by Africa Check in Dakar, Senegal. The programme will bring together five francophone journalists offering them an in-depth fact-checking training, practical experience and insight into operating a fact-checking organisation.
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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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fully bookedThe 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference
KAS Media Africa supports African Investigative Journalism
The largest gathering of investigative journalists, trainers and experts in Africa will return to Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa once again this October
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fully bookedSustainable Journalism Workshop in Arusha, Tanzania
Transforming Journalism Education in East Africa
KAS Media Africa supports a groundbreaking workshop aimed at integrating sustainability into journalism curricula across East Africa.
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fully bookedConference on Public Service Broadcasting 2024
How to Rejuvenate Public Service Broadcasting Africa
KAS Media Africa is due to host its second conference on the revitalisation of public service broadcasting.
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fully booked2024 Africa Facts Summit Accra, Ghana
From Chaos to Clarity: Reinventing Local Journalism in the Age of Disruption
Study and information programme
fully bookedLocal Journalism Award Winners Visit Germany
Dialogue Programme for KAS Media Africa Local Journalism Award 2024 Winners
This year's edition of the KAS Media Africa Local Journalism Award hail from Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. They will converge in Berlin to begin a week-long dialogue programme with local newsrooms, before moving to Leipzig for the second leg of the meetings.
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fully bookedAdenauer Media Lecture
Television is dead, long live television!
The second Adenauer Media Lecture will take place at the Aga Khan University in Nairobi, on 27 August 2024.
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fully bookedAfrican Journalism Education Network 2024
Bringing together journalism educators from across Africa
Founded in 2023, the African Journalism Education Network (Ajen) seeks to bring people and organisations active in African journalism together to share knowledge and promote independent media on the continent. The network also strives to elevate African journalism on a global scale.
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fully bookedAfrica Check Fellowship Programme 2024 in Dakar, Senegal
Strengthening fact-checking in West Africa
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fully bookedDeutsche 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.
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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.
