Journalists and Development Communication
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1. Local Voices - Kenya & Nigeria
The Local Voices programme aims to engage media professionals to improve coverage of public-health issues, particularly HIV/AIDS. It is aimed at various levels of the media community, including radio station owners, managers, journalists, and editors. By providing local media with information, resources, and professional support they need to cover HIV/AIDS effectively, the programme hopes to help journalists to make a significant contribution to prevention and awareness by integrating HIV/AIDS information into programming.
Contact Liz Gold lgold@internews.org
2. Communication for Education & Development (COMED) Programme - Africa
Works with ministries of education, media specialists in education reporting, communication researchers and development organisations to promote the use of communication in support of education. Over 200 journalists and communication officers from 30 African countries participated in training workshops aimed at enhancing skills and encouraging working relationships between journalists and ministerial communication officers.
Contact Prof Alfred Opubor alfredopubor@yahoo.com
3. Training Workshops on Computer/Internet-Assisted Reporting - Nigeria
The Media Resource and Advocacy Centre (MRAC) conducted training workshops for journalists on computer/internet-assisted reporting of sexual and reproductive health/rights issues. The training aimed to equip journalists with skills needed to use Internet for reporting. The training also provided journalists data skills to enhance their reporting.
Contact Akin Jimoh devcoms@yahoo.com
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4. Journ-AIDS - South Africa
The Journ-AIDS website is an online resource for journalists on HIV/AIDS-related issues. The website includes news articles, factsheets, background information, research undertaken on media reporting around HIV/AIDS, and a contacts and projects database. The programme aims to support the development of a culture of investigative journalism in South Africa, and develop the capacity of AIDS service organisations and people living with HIV/AIDS to work with the media.
Contact Kylie Thomaskylie.thomas@wits.ac.za
5. Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) - Africa
JHR's aim is to improve the quality, quantity and accuracy of human rights reporting through programmes, training seminars, and online information about human rights issues. The website includes links to organisations and journalism initiatives worldwide, and to documents central to international human rights standards. JHR also hosts an e-list serv discussing human rights issues and the media in Africa.
Contact Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque alexandra.levesque@jhr.ca OR Ben Peterson ben.peterson@jhr.ca
6. AIDS Resource Center (ARC) - Ethiopia
The Center targets journalists, health providers, government departments, and organisations for information about HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis. The resource centre offers a variety of materials, services, and equipment, including a reference collection with periodicals, official guidelines, general and scientific books, brochures, videos, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and audiocassettes. The website provides information on news, events and opportunities, reporting guides and press releases.
Contact Ato Gashaw Mengistu arce@telecom.net.et
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Seeking French-speaking journalists/media practitioners in South Africa
The Association of Francophone Journalists of South Africa, which is newly-formed, seeks contact with French-speaking media practitioners, including photographers, DJs, producers, editors and journalists in South Africa or those who have a working knowledge of French. For more information, please contact Jean-Marie Lebon on media@ambafrance-rsa.org
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7. Children's Rights and the Media: A Resource for Journalists
The aim of this booklet is to provide media professionals with a practical resource for reporting on children and children's rights. It encourages the media to re-examine how children's issues are covered and raise the priority accorded to children in print and broadcast media. It is a source of information and statistics and provides contact details of individuals and organisations working for children's rights.
8. ICT Policy: A Beginner's Guide
The handbook aims to build understanding of the issues around policy on ICT development and regulation. It explains policy and regulation, how policy is decided, who the main players are, and what can be done to ensure that policy decision-making is a transparent, participatory process. This book aims to be of interest to a wide range of people: members of civil society groups, researchers,activists, technical persons who are getting more interestedin the political side, journalists looking for background information, government-administration workers.
9. Media Law Manual Published for Zimbabwe Broadcasters
by Geoff Feltoe
The guide covers Zimbabwe law relating to both print and electronic media, and is intended to assist journalists to understand those aspects of Zimbabwe law that have a bearing on their professional work. This includes new media and journalist registration laws and the defamation law, as well as national key point legislation, access to information laws, military and police Acts, and laws governing parliamentary and executive privilege.
10. HIV/AIDS: A Resource for Journalists
The publication states that the media is a powerful source of information for people in South Africa and that journalists have an important role in providing the public with accurate information about the causes, spread, impact and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Topics include: understanding statistics and predictions; economic impact of HIV/AIDS; gender and HIV/AIDS; and care and Support for People Living with HIV and AIDS.
11. Making Your Voice Heard: A Media Toolkit for Children & Youth
This toolkit offers ways to change negative stereotypes of youth in the media. It aims to help children, youth and youth-based organisations, community groups, and educators to understand the media and to gain access to various media. It also contains a media guide for NGOs and youth-based community groups and guidance for journalists on how to report about young people. . There are appendixes that discuss the relevant international instruments on children and the media.
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