#FaveOfTheWeek: Mukami Wambora
Meet award-winning Kenyan sports journalist Mukami Wambora, an advocate who is so passionate about sports she left legal work to pursue a career in sport journalism.
New forms of advertising raise questions about journalism integrity
Mainstream news media outlets have, in recent years, begun to create advertisements that look like news articles on their websites and on social media. My research raises questions about whether this modern form of advertising might influence those outlets’ real journalism.
Botswana media opposition leads to law rewrite
The Botswana government has amended the controversial Criminal Procedure and Evidence (Controlled Investigation) Bill which is legislation journalists feared would muzzle free speech and tighten the vice on the press.
Women and non-conforming media professionals most vulnerable to sexual harassment
Women and gender non-conforming media professionals remain the most vulnerable to sexual harassment in the workplace as they are three and a half times more likely to experience harassment than men.
#FaveOfTheWeek: Edyth Kambalame
Each week, frayintermedia highlights a journalist doing good work on the continent and honours them as our #FaveOfTheWeek. Meet award-winning Malawian editor and 2021 WAN-IFRA Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureate Edyth Kambalame who is passionate about storytelling empowering women.
Tailored AI Strategy is key to newsroom future
Tailored AI strategies by editors could see newsrooms collaborate in order to elevate their storytelling and improve efficiencies. This was the consensus during the “Kickstarting the AI Journey as a Small Newsroom” session at this year’s Journalism AI Festival.