The BBC has announced a number of key partnership agreements to share specialist training and resources with other broadcasters, industry organisations and the public across the UK.The partnerships are unveiled today at the official launch of the BBC Academy, the BBC's dedicated centre of excellence for training in journalism, production, leadership and technology.The new initiatives are part of an unprecedented strategy to develop partnerships and give wider access to the BBC's training resources and skills to support the wider UK media industry.
The new plans include:
Making the BBC College of Journalism's website freely available in the UK. The site – which has been running for three years inside the BBC – contains masterclasses from leading BBC journalists like Evan Davis, John Humphrys, Robert Peston, Jenni Murray and Jeremy Vine. It covers craft skills and ethics and values and there are hundreds of video and audio examples alongside interactive modules where you can test yourself. The site will be available by subscription outside the UK.
Joining forces with Channel 4 to create the Diversity 2010 programme, which aims to increase understanding of diversity in the workplace and embed it in our future leadership. Through a series of workshops and events across one year, up to 10 participants from each organisation will gain a deeper understanding of modern thinking about diversity, through exposure to best practice in areas including politics, the commercial sector and local communities as well as the media industry.
A collaboration with ITV to improve employability in the media industry for people with disabilities. By sharing best practice and enabling two-way placements, ITV will further develop its Enabling Talent disability programme and the BBC its award-winning Extend Scheme.
Sharing the BBC's Multiplatform Foundation training model with other broadcasters and organisations including PACT, BECTU and the Indie Training Fund. The Academy will provide a template for industry professionals to tailor and deliver a range of production and development exercises, workshops and mentoring to improve multiplatform understanding and capability in their organisations.
Delivering ideas development and pitching workshops for independent and in-house producers outside London to share and nurture best practice and help to increase the number of commissions from the nations as part of the BBC's Out Of London production strategy. The workshop has piloted in Belfast and will be held in Cardiff and Glasgow in the New Year.
The Academy launch will be attended by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, Deputy Director-General Mark Byford, Chair of the Academy Board, and key figures from the broadcasting industry.
Speaking at the launch, BBC Academy Director, Anne Morrison says: "The quality of the BBC's training across journalism, production, technical and leadership skills is rightly renowned across the world. These partnerships will open up our training resources to the industry in new ways as never before. We'll look for further opportunities to do this wherever we can.
"Our aim is to create a world-class organisation that benefits all BBC staff and, through partnerships, helps support the wider industry. These major new agreements mark a major step towards our long-term ambitions."
Mark Byford adds: "The BBC is determined to support the wider UK media industry through difficult times and, by sharing valuable training resources like the College of Journalism, we can help to secure the best standards and learning in the world."
These new measures build upon our video news syndication, Radio Live Player and other partnerships to support the media industry which is why we are extending our partnership commitments in training to work with other organisations in a challenging media landscape."
These additional initiatives build upon existing BBC schemes to train freelance talent for the benefit of the industry, including the Series Producers Programme, Writers Academy and writersroom, College of Comedy and the Design Trainee Scheme.
Established in April 2009, the BBC Academy brings together all the BBC's training and development across four areas – Journalism, Production, Leadership and Technology. The Academy focuses on providing high-quality training to all BBC staff and building external relationships to extend the BBC's training resources to the wider industry
The BBC's Charter Agreement includes a responsibility to train the broadcasting industry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/12_december/14/academy.shtml
There is so much information available to journalists that it is criminal when they neglect internet research and turn out unprofessional and uninformed reports, Ms Ajoa Yeboah-Afari, Chairperson of Editors Forum, said on Tuesday in Accra.
What is worse is what can be regarded as another form of cyber crime; people shamelessly steal the work of others just because the material is available on line, she said.
Ms Yeboah-Afari said this at the launch of ghanabusinessnews.com in Accra.
She said generators of original materials deserved respect, support and appreciation and urged people to credit sources, which they found good enough to use in their stories or put in their radio programmes.
Mr. Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, Managing Online Editor of the ghanabusinessnews.com, said though the site had been in operation for only a year, it had made such remarkable impact that its visitor profile had kept growing every day.
He said for one to be successful in business one must be prepared to take a firm posture and be prepared to fight on at any cost, adding the media business terrain was not for the faint-hearted.
Mr. Dogbevi said journalism had long been held as the Fourth Estate of the Realm because of its prestigious position and importance to the good of the wider society but activities of some had pushed the dignified institution into disrepute and scorn.
He said a study recently published by the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition showed that important news and information received very little coverage and where they were covered they were buried in the inside pages.
Stories that made headlines were given poor treatment with many of the stories being one sided.
Mr Dogbevi said there was also the blatant abuse of the copyright laws and intellectual property rights of others even by leading media organizations.
Mr Affail Monney, Vice President of the Ghana Journalists Association, urged all media houses to prioritize and intensify efforts to catch up with the global communication revolution.
Source: GNA
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 Seated (Row 1): Alexandria Havlick, Margaret Peters, Nawaar Farooq, Nicole Lumbreras, Genevieve Krier, and Kara Barten. Middle Row (Row 2): Alissa Wanless, Catherine Dix, Ashley Keifer, Ashton Shurson, Melissa Darden, Brigette Fanning, Tara Dunlay, Kristin Lutz, and Nicole Petrancosta. Standing (Row 3): Alexandra Schroeder, Brianna Runyan, Lauren McGrath, Dalicia Xayasouk, Alicia Sieverding, Kelly Murphy, Joelle Coons, and Kaylena Jensen. Students missing in pic: Kendra Cook, Dana Davidsen, Devin Grask, and Katelynn Henderson. (Picture by Richard Johns, adjunct faculty member.) Description: In Fall 2009, students from the University of Iowa's Gender and Mass Media class interviewed successful women in online journalism. The interviews are listed below as well as featured in an OurBlook online book, which includes an introduction by class professor and former director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Pamela Creedon, and Virginia Commonwealth University professor and former reporter, June Nicholson. The goal of the interview series is to familiarize the students with the challenges women in online communications face, as well as what made them successful. | |
INVITATION TO OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF GHANABUSINESSNEWS.COM
With support from the World Bank, Ghana Country Office, ghanabusinessnews.com will be officially launched.Other supporters of the event are; Accra Brewery Limited and Voltic Ghana Limited.
Date: Tuesday December 15, 2009.
Time: 10:00am
Venue: International Press Centre, Accra.
Theme: Online Journalism: Putting Ghana on the global platform
The first online business, financial and economic news source on Ghana, the website has won global recognition and acceptance with a growing readership.The website also covers general news, investment, ICT, tourism, insurance, politics, sports and entertainment. It also has pages for editorials/opinion, feature articles and news from Africa and other parts of the world.Apart from generating content, the website is also an aggregator of news and information from other sources.
"By clicking on the 'Report' button, users can upload a photo and give a brief eyewitness account of breaking news," the Telegraph reported yesterday.
"This new, improved app provides a really rich, multimedia news experience," said Maani Safa, head of mobile at Telegraph Media Group. "We've made the software as easy to use as possible, and there are lots of features that readers will love."
Its first iPhone app was launched earlier this year and it has also developed a variety of apps for BlackBerry and Google Android.
The Telegraph has also launched a citizen journalism competition to coincide with the new launch: readers are encouraged to send in 'newsworthy' words or images for a chance to see their item published on Telegraph.co.uk and win iTunes vouchers.
credit :journalism.co.uk
The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.
Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription websites.
Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration pages.
"Previously, each click from a user would be treated as free," Google senior business product manager Josh Cohen said in a blog post.
"Now, we've updated the programme so that publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing."
Google users may start seeing registration pages appear when they click for a sixth time on any given day at websites of publishers using the programme, according to Mr Cohen.
This will only affect websites that currently charge for content.
'Significant move'
The announcement is seen as a reaction to concerns in the newspaper industry that Google is using newspaper content unfairly.
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of Newscorp, has accused firms such as Google of profiting from journalism by generating advertising revenue by linking readers to newspaper articles.
Some readers have discovered they can avoid paying subscription fees to newspaper websites by calling up their pages via Google.
This is because Google searches frequently link directly to newspaper articles, bypassing some sites' subscription systems.
Broadcasting and media consultant Steve Hewlett said that Google's response was "a pretty significant move".
"Rupert Murdoch is trying to build a consensus that paying for content online is right and that aggregators like Google that use newspaper content but don't pay for it are doing something wrong," he said.
Search for revenue
Newspapers are increasingly looking for new ways to make money from their online content amid a continuing decline in circulation figures and advertising revenues.
Earlier this week Johnston Press, the UK's largest regional newspaper publisher, announced plans to to begin charging for access to six of its titles online.
The move follows a 42% slump in advertising revenues at the group over the last two years.
Earlier this year, the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) cut 1,000 jobs at its regional arm Northcliffe Media, which publishes more than 100 newspapers in England and Wales.
Newscorp, which owns the Times and the Sun newspapers in the UK, has also been affected by the downturn.
In June, it announced losses of $3.4bn (£2bn) for the previous 12 months, describing the year as "the most difficult in recent history".
It has also revealed plans to begin charging for access to all its online content. The corporation currently charges for access to its US title the Wall Street Journal.
Course Aims:
To strengthen the capacity of broadcast journalists/programme-makers from developing and newly-emerging countries and of the organisations they work for to compile and produce factual programming designed to inform audiences in an effective and attractive way about development-related issues and events of importance to their everyday lives.
Course Rationale:
Broadcasting organisations working through radio, television and increasingly new media are an important source of information to people around the world; a source of information that can help people to make informed decisions about their lives, improve their quality of life and contribute to the social and economic progress of the societies they are a part of. Broadcasting organisations with a serious mission to inform have to do more in their factual programming than keep their audiences up to date with the news of the day; they have to place it in a context, examine and encourage debate about its (potential) impact on their listeners and viewers and where necessary provide a follow-up. And beyond current affairs there is a whole range of development-related factual programming which provides audiences with valuable information in areas that
are linked to the interests and aspirations they have in their private and in their working lives, to their rights and duties as individuals and to their place and role in society as a whole. Much factual programming suffers from unimaginative treatment and an approach to the conveying of information that is routine and shows scant regard for the information needs of the audience. In an era of increased competition for audiences and of a proliferation of sources of information, the challenge facing journalists and programme- makers working in factual programming, is to make their programmes more effective and attractive. Part of that challenge – most evident in the application of Internet as a source of information – is about encouraging and developing ways for audiences to interact with their sources of information.
Course Content:
Participants will explore a variety of formats used in contemporary factual programming and analyse their strengths and weaknesses and their suitability for different target audiences. Special attention will be given to the skills required to develop and present creative programme ideas, to carry out programme research and to produce effective and attractive factual programming making appropriate use of different formats. As well as carrying out a number of radio or television course assignments focusing on development-related issues of concern to their audiences at home participants from both media will also develop ideas and factual content for the internet ; in doing so they will learn to combine text, photo's, audio and video to best effect and to make use of the possibilities offered by the medium to interact with the target audiences as a means to gain feedback, give additional information, encourage discussion and debate, and develop closer ties between the broadcasting organisation and its audience.
Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Autonomous Palestinian Territories,
Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Burkina Faso,
Cambodia, Cape Verde, China (not Hong Kong and Macao), Colombia, DR Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau,
Honduras,
India, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast,
Jordan,
Kenya, Kosovo
Macedonia, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique,
Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria,Pakistan, Peru, Philippines,
Rwanda,
Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam,
Tanzania, Thailand,
Uganda*,
Vietnam,
Yemen,
Zambia, Zimbabwe.Mr. Dogbevi, an award winning journalist who also writes business plans found the need for a business news website following disappointing experiences in finding valuable and relevant information on businesses in Ghana. This disappointment led to the development of the website to meet the growing need for high quality business news and information on Ghana.
An experienced journalist himself with a background in web development and online journalism he took off hoping to grow the site into a viable business within two years. But within its first year since going online, ghanabusinessnews.com has become the business news source of choice on Ghana all over the world.
The website covers general news, investment, ICT news, tourism, insurance, politics, sports and entertainment. It also has pages for editorials/opinion, feature articles and news from Africa and other parts of the world.
Apart from generating content, the website is also an aggregator of news and information from other sources.
"The entrance of ghanabusinessnews.com into the online media scene in Ghana has certainly raised the stakes higher, because the news and information that we put up meet the highest standards in journalism anywhere," Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, who is also the Managing Online Editor of the site said.
"The website is barely one year old and yet we have received overwhelming feedback from all over the world. We have once received a phone call from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, an enquiry from a unit of the United Nations and commendation letters from some individuals we do not even know both in Ghana and abroad. And for us, these are indicators that we are meeting the needs of the global online news market," he said.
"This worldwide recognition also places on us a greater responsibility to do more, and we do hope to live up to expectations as we pursue the highest professional standards possible in meeting the needs of our visitors," he added.
For more information, contact:
Emmanuel K. Dogbevi
Email: info@ghanabusinessnews.com
Tel: 233-244 699845
http://ghanabusinessnews.com/2009/11/29/press-release-one-year-of-ghanabusinessnews-com/
African Elections Project to Cover Namibia Elections 2009
Press Release
For immediate release
WINDHOEK, Namibia 26 November 2009 -
African Elections Project to Cover Namibia Elections 2009.
The African Elections Project (AEP) www.africanelections.org/namibia will be covering Namibia 's 4th general election, taking place on November 27th and 28th 2009, to elect a president and parliamentary representatives. AEP in conjunction with its partners, Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) www.misa.org held a two-day workshop aimed at equipping journalists with cutting edge Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) skills in elections coverage in Namibia on 28-29 September 2009.
AEP was established in 2008 to empower journalists to cover elections using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) across the continent. After a successful take-off in Ghana, Cote d' Ivoire, Mozambique, Malawi and Guinea.
In Southern Africa, AEP is covering Botswana www.africanelections.org/bostwana elections which took place on 16th October 2009, Mozambique's elections www.africanelections.org/mozambique) which took place on 28th October 2009 and Namibia's elections www.africanelections.org/namibia taking place from 27th to 28th November 2009. The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africawww.osisa.org is providing funding for these countries coverage.
The role of the media in ensuring free and fair elections is indispensable. All over the world the media is playing this important role of ensuring free and fair elections by working with all stakeholders across board.
The media can strengthen the electoral process by providing independent information through impartial coverage. Three important focal issues come into play: access to information on the political process, ability to undertake investigative journalism and documentation of lessons and experiences from the electioneering process.
The African Elections Project is coordinated by Ghana based International Institute for ICT Journalism (www.penplusbytes.org) working hand in hand with key partners.
Signed
Levi Kabwato
November 11-14, 2009
Accra, Ghana
The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will co-sponsor a Colloquium on African Elections from 12‐14 November 2009 in Accra, Ghana.
The colloquium will review the challenges and best practices in the conduct of elections in Africa, with a particular focus on lessons that could be shared from Ghana's 2008 electoral process.
Approximately 100 participants from 25 African countries will attend the colloquium. Participants will include elections commissioners, political party leaders, civic advocates, leaders of elections monitoring groups, journalists and high level officials of security services that oversee peace building and law enforcement missions around elections.
The Colloquium on African Elections: Best Practices and Cross-Sectoral Collaboration will seek to address two critical points:
1) the effective performance of entities involved in the electoral process and
2) the linkages that should exist among stakeholders, and how to foster cross-sectoral collaboration during elections.
Examining the strengths and weaknesses of the Ghanaian electoral process and how it compares with other African countries will facilitate sharing knowledge and strengthening linkages among different sectors of the electoral process. The anticipated outcome of discussions at the colloquium will be to identify guidelines on how to conduct credible elections, ease political tensions, enhance transparency, and facilitate the acceptance of genuine election results by political contestants and their supporters. Sharing best practices among African practitioners will enhance prospects for democratic elections across the continent and inspire professional conduct among various stakeholders in countries preparing for upcoming elections. The Consortium of organizers are hoping to compile the cases of best practices in elections in Africa and publish on a book form.
African Media Leaders Meet in LagosFocus on Harnessing Power of New Technologies for Media Development LAGOS, Nigeria, November 6, 2009 – Over 185 African media owners' participated in a two-day "African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF)" to discuss practical ways for strengthening Africa's media development and agreed on a charter for the African Media Initiative (AMI), a parent body that is working to improve the media sector across Africa. "Media have a central role to play in nurturing democracy on the African continent," said Nduka Obaigbena, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY, one of Africa's leading newspapers. "The African Media Leaders Forum is committed to improving the business environment for media and to strengthening skills of African journalists. The Lagos meeting will serve as a launch pad for concerted, collective actions to promote African media development for the benefit of all." Mr. Nduka is the founding chairman of the AMLF which held its first meeting in Dakar, Senegal, one year ago. The AMLF is the single-largest annual gathering of media owners coming together to discuss development in Africa and the range of cutting-edge issues affecting Africa's media industries, just as the African continent is being buffeted by the global financial crisis, deepening recessionary trends, and the advent of new, social media technologies that are fundamentally altering existing media business models all across the globe. Headlined speakers at the Lagos meeting represented a Who's Who of top print, broadcast, and online journalists, including Sam Amuka (Vanguard, Nigeria), Oh Yeon Ho (Ohmynews, South Korea), Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post), Charlayne Hunter-Gault (US National Public Radio), Ted Koppel (former anchor, ABC's Nightline news), Tumi Magkabo (of Tumi & Co, formerly with CNN), Trevor Ncube (South Africa's Mail & Guardian), Dele Olojede (Pulitzer Prize winner), and others. "We have urgent business, and that business is development," said Trevor Ncube, Deputy Executive Chairman, Mail & Guardian, addressing his peers. "Our role is to ensure that we participate in creating a marketplace of ideas and that media is perceived as an integral partner of the development process." |
An overarching objective of the Lagos meeting was to explore ways in which the voices of the vast majority of Africans can be better mobilized to create a new narrative that is centered on wealth creation, away from the stereotypical view that emphasizes problems and deficiencies at the expense of opportunity. The AMLF participants, representing the continent's influential thinkers and doers, have a key role to play in transforming the one-dimensional image that shortchanges Africa into the more complex image that the continent deserves. "New media are opening up new opportunities to expand the dialogue on the role of media in sustainable development across Africa," said Eric Chinje, Manager, Africa Region External Affairs, The World Bank. "Now, more than ever before, is the time to create a new wealth narrative that can help improve the everyday lives of millions of Africans who yearn for economic opportunity, knowledge, and cultural expression." In keeping with the times, the proceedings and discussions of the AMLF meeting in Lagos were tweeted, twittered, and broadcast live on social media websites including www.twitter.com/allafrica. The full proceedings, including the charter of the African Media Initiative, is available on www.amlf2009.org Media contact: Tendai Mhizha, AMLF Forum Director, +234 70 693 81691, +27 82 9001 204, tendai@africanmediainitiative.org |
2009 AMLF AgendaAfrica Media Leaders Forum(AMLF) Lagos, Nigeria 4-6 November 2009, http://www.amlf2009.org
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Wednesday, November 4th | |
| 12h00 - 19h00 | Registration |
| 19h00 | Welcome Reception - Hosted by the Lagos State Government |
| Speakers | Nduka Obaigbena - Founding Chairman: AMLF and CEO THISDAY |
| | Eric Chinje - Co-President AMLF, Manager External Relations, World Bank, African Region |
| | Amadou Mahtar Ba – Co-President AMLF, AMI Acting Executive, Director and President AllAfrica Global Media |
| | His Excellency Babatunde Fashola - Executive Governor of Lagos State |
Thursday, November 5th | |
| 07h30 | Registration |
| 08h30 - 09h45 | Opening Ceremony |
| Chair | His Excellency, Jonathan Goodluck - Vice President: Federal Republic of Nigeria |
| Speakers | Nduka Obaigbena - Founding Chairman: AMLF and CEO THISDAY |
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| Amadou Mahtar Ba – Co-President AMLF, AMI Acting Executive Director and President AllAfrica Global Media |
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| Eric Chinje - Co-President AMLF, Manager External Relations, World Bank Africa Region |
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| Chief Ajibola Ogunshola – President: Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria |
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| Alhaji Abubakar Jijiwa – Chairman: Broadcasting Association of Nigeria |
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| His Excellency, Jonathan Goodluck - Vice President: Federal Republic of Nigeria |
| 09h45 - 10-00 | Coffee Break |
| 10h00 - 10h10 | Forum overview: Prof Fackson Banda – Forum General Co-ordinator |
| 10h10 - 12h00 | Plenary - WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE FUTURES OF JOURNALISM WITH THE EMERGENCE OF NEW MEDIA? |
| Keynote Speech | Ted Koppel - Journalist,Former ABC`s Nightline Anchor, Former Managing Editor at Discovery Channel and currently NPR and BBC Senior news analyst |
| Panel | Oh Yeon Ho - Founder and CEO: Ohmynews Co, South Korea |
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| Dr Tamela Hultman - Co-founder and Chief Content Officer: AllAfrica Global Media (AllAfrica.com) and Founding Director Centre for Africa and the Media at Duke University |
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| Dele Olojede – Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner |
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| Prof. John Lavine – Dean: Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University |
| Moderator | Nduka Obaigbena – CEO: THISDAY and Founding Chairman AMLF |
| 12h00 - 14h00 | Networking Lunch |
| 14h00 - 16h00 | Plenary - MEDIA AND GOVERNANCE: MYTHS AND REALITIES OF A FOURTH ESTATE |
| Keynote Speech | Arianna Huffington – Journalist and co-founder: The Huffington Post, USA |
| Panel | Pius Njawe - CEO and Founder: Le Messager, Cameroon |
| Omar Ben Yedder - Associate Group Publisher , IC Publications | |
| Robert Kabushenga – CEO: New Vision, Uganda | |
| Trevor Ncube - CEO: Mail & Guardian, South Africa | |
| Prof Kwame Karakari - Executive Director: Media Foundation of West Africa, Ghana | |
| Moderator | Charlayne Hunter Gault - Co-Chair: Board of Trustees, AMI |
| 16h00 - 16h15 | Coffee Break |
| 16h15 - 18h00 | Plenary - MEDIA DEVELOPMEN: FINANCING MEDIA VENTURES |
| Panel | Tayo Aderinokun - Group Managing Director: Guarantee Trust Bank, Nigeria |
| Trevor Ncube – CEO: Mail & Guardian, South Africa | |
| George Twumasi – CEO: African Broadcasting Network, UK | |
| Kate Senye – CEO: Southern Africa Media Development Fund, Namibia | |
| Moderator | Marie Roger Biloa – CEO: Africa International, France |
| 19h30 | Gala Dinner |
Friday, November 6th | |
| 08h30 - 10h30 | Plenary - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A DIGITAL WORLD: ENVISIONING NEW MEDIA BUSINESS MODELS |
| Keynote Speech | Prof. John Lavine – Dean: Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University |
| Panel | Charlie Beckett – Director: POLIS, London School of Economics, UK |
| Cristiana Falcone - World Economic Forum, Director Media, Entertainment and Information Industries | |
| Reed Kramer – Co-Founder and CEO: AllAfrica Global Media (AllAfrica.com) | |
| Chris Kabwato - Director: Highway Africa, South Africa | |
| Moderator | Linus Gitahi – CEO: Nation Media Group, Kenya |
| 10h30 - 10h45 | Coffee Break |
| 10h45 - 12h30 | Plenary - MONETIZATION OF CONTENT AND THE IMPERATIF DEVELOPMENT AGENDA |
| Introductory remarks Dr Akinwumi Adesina - VP Alliance: A Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) | |
| Panel | John Lavine – Dean: Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University |
| Ramanou Kouferidji – CEO: Imanle Radio and TV, Benin | |
| Alhadji Abubakar Jijiwa – Chairman: Broadcasting Association of Nigeria | |
| Andrew Mwenda - CEO, The Independent Magazine, Uganda | |
| Moderator | Collin Mukete – CEO: Spectrum Media Group, Cameroon |
| 12h30 - 13h30 | Plenary - STRATEGY FOR AN IMPROVED MEDIA LANDSCAPE: THE AFRICAN MEDIA INITIATIVE (AMI) |
| Amadou Mahtar Ba - Acting Executive Director: AMI | |
| Eric Chinje – Trustee: AMI | |
| Chair | Charlayne Hunter Gault - Co-Chair: Board of Trustees, AMI |
| Trevor Ncube - Co-Chair: Board of Trustees, AMI | |
| 13h30 - 14h30 | Lunch |
| 14h30 - 15h30 | DISCUSSION AND ADOPTION OF A CHARTER FOR THE AFRICAN MEDIA LEADERS FORUM |
| Presenter | Presenter: Prof Fackson Banda - SAB LTD-UNESCO Chair of Media & Democracy, School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University |
| Chair | Boureima Jeremie Sigue - Directeur General: des Edition "Le Pays" |
| 15h30 - 15h45 | Coffee Break |
| 15h45 - 16h30 | ADOPTION OF THE LAGOS DECLARATION AND CLOSING CEREMONY |
| Chair | Sam Amuka – Publisher: Vanguard Newspaper, Nigeria |
| Nduka Obaigbena – CEO: THISDAY, AMLF Founding Chairman | |
| FORUM CLOSES |
