#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.
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.
Local journalism and audience engagement to drive growth in 2022
In 2021 African journalists faced several challenges such as arbitrary attacks and arrests, increased digital proliferation and disinformation.
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.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu showed us how journalism should speak truth to power
The late archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu leaves behind a legacy of speaking truth to power.
Mental health front and central in newsrooms
Job insecurity, the economic crisis, polarization of the media, growing attacks against journalists and the relentless news cycle.