Events - Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa
Workshop
fully bookedAfrican Media Councils' Meeting
Convened by the South African Press Council and supported by KAS Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa.
The aim of the meeting is to strengthen self-regulation of media content in Africa by fostering communication and an exchange of information between independent media councils, identifying issues of common concern, discussing the establishment of a network of media councils, and giving African delegates the opportunity to prepare for and attend the conference of the global Organisation of News Ombudsmen and Standards.
Event
2024 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival
A gathering of leading journalists, editors, and publishers from around the world.
Journalists from Africa will attend with the support of the KAS Media Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa. So, they can bring their respective perspectives, knowledge and experiences from Africa into the debates.
Event
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.
Forum
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.
Event
Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Open Day 2021
„Politics and trust“
The work of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation: focusing on participation, representation, security, and innovation.
Workshop
E-lection Bridge Academy 2021 – Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire
KAS E-lection Bridge Academy
KAS Media Africa will gather 14 young politicians, from English-speaking and Francophone countries in Africa, to this year’s KAS E-lection Bridge Academy. Following up on previous years’ Academy editions, 2021 will mark the first time that this programme – workshop and online modules – will be held in a bilingual environment.
Book presentation
Hounded: African Journalists in Exile
Good journalism requires courage
Exile is not a new thing for African writers. The majority of contributors to "Hounded: African Journalists in Exile" remain in hiding to date. That speaks volumes. Hounded is a collection of 16 autobiographical accounts of exiled editors, reporters, bloggers and other media workers from West, Central, East and Southern Africa.
Book presentation
Tackling Misinformation on WhatsApp in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa
Effective Strategies in a time of Covid-19
This publication brings to the fore misinformation about Covid-19 as witnessed by WhatsApp users in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa.
Expert conference
Entrepreneurship Journalism Conference
The urgency of finding sustainable, profitable, media business models has increased significantly since the onset of Covid-19 with effects including scaling down newsroom
As media owners, journalists and academics from Bamako to Johannesburg and Nairobi have pondered, one of the key questions is how media in Africa can survive the double threat of changing media consumption habits and declining advertising income?
Online-Seminar
#AfricaBlogging Conference 2020
In October 2020, the #AfricaBlogging network of bloggers from across Africa will hold its sixth annual conference online
Online-Seminar
The African Investigative Journalism Conference
The 16th Annual Edition of the AIJC conference
Online-Seminar
African Media Thermometer
A series of podcasts and three virtual discussions about Health Journalism
Expert conference
#RDA2020 – The New Normal?
This year Radio Days Africa will be an an on-line offering allowing radio fans across the continent to continue to benefit from the networking and learning associated with RDA.
Online-Seminar
Malawi Election Workshop
KAS Media Africa will hold a zoom webinar with over 30 journalists who were trained by KAS Media Africa in 2018.