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Project #RCCE Launches Today and Participants are Thrilled about what’s to come

African Women in Media6 years ago03 mins

African Women in Media (AWiM), in partnership with UNESCO under the framework of the IPDC announces the kick off/ launch of the Risk Communication and Community Engagement project (RCCE) today, July 1, 2020. This project which received applications from over 600 female journalists from Eastern Africa with interest in the areas of health/risk communication and community engagement in light of the Covid 19 global pandemic. The…

VACANCY: Media and Communications Officer

African Women in Media6 years ago6 years ago43 mins

As we move close to the fourth conference scheduled for July 29-31 in South Africa (here’s the concept of AWiM 2020 [PDF] )we are delighted at the realization that the AWiM family is growing. Therefore, we invite applications for a qualified person for a full-time role of a Media and Communications Officer! The officer, who…

Conversation with Christabel Ligami

African Women in Media7 years ago7 years ago03 mins

Christabel Ligami, one of the award winners at the awim19 conference shares snippets of her career journey while talking about the place of data and policy in journalism. Please tell us about yourself My name is Christabel Ligami, a Kenyan freelance journalist. I am a multi-award-winning journalist both internationally and regionally. I have a master’s…

Conversation with Mary Mwendwa

African Women in Media7 years ago7 years ago15 mins

Mary Mwendwa, a Journalist with a background in science tells us why she pitched her award-winning story at the AWIM19 pitch zone and tells us why she tells stories from a place of depth and passion. Please tell us about yourself I am a freelance journalist and editor for an online publication called…www.talkafrica.co.ke ( Talkafrica)…

Conversation with Zahara Tunda

African Women in Media7 years ago7 years ago07 mins

Zahara Tunda, one of the award winners at the just concluded African Women in Media Conference lets us into her world as she talks about her background, professional journey and drive for data journalism in this interview. Kindly tell us about yourself My name is Zahara Tunda and I was born in 1994, in…

Event highlights approaches to fighting misinformation in African newsrooms

African Women in Media7 years ago7 years ago04 mins

In July, journalists across Africa gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to showcase the reporting produced by African women working in a variety of media. At this year’s African Women in the Media (AWiM) conference, which was started in 2016 by Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola, and has as its mission to positively impact the way media functions in…

The Inverted Pyramid is dying; don’t let your writing follow suit

African Women in Media8 years ago43 mins

Finally, after centuries in journalism schools, conferences and seminars, the inverted pyramid style of news writing is on its last legs. Dying out, the ghosts of this method can often be seen in traditional newspaper writing and radio bulletins. Don’t take my word for it; there’s a whole raft of academic papers and features on…

Female IDPs Continue to Suffer Starvation and Sexual Abuse in Nigerian Camps

African Women in Media8 years ago04 mins

ABUJA – In September 2016, a study on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) conducted in Nigeria by NOI Polls reported that access to food, water, medicines and relief materials remain big issues to most IDPs; and sadly, women are mostly at the receiving end. About 85 percent of the IDPs interviewed, at the time, said they…

How to Use Your Instagram as a Calling Card

African Women in Media8 years ago5 years ago04 mins

Let’s face it; Instagram is like fufu, mieliepap, ugali or banku – you either like it and indulge all the time, or you don’t. But what none of us can deny is that Instagram is indeed one of several meals that enrich the soup called social media. Whether you have 500k followers or 50 followers,……...

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Three Ways To Maximise Your Time on LinkedIn

African Women in Media8 years ago8 years ago03 mins

There are so many social media platforms today, you would be forgiven if you thought all that you can possibly do there is to tell your immediate circle of influence what you are doing, and how. But they can do more. Social media platforms not only put the world at your fingertips, they can help…

How Much Should I Charge?

Yemisi Akinbobola8 years ago8 years ago24 mins

The concept of charging for a project may be a struggle as there are many factors that come into play: How much time is it going to take to complete that project, What level of expertise will you be applying in the execution of that project? Would it take extra support from other people to…

How to Manage Time Effectively

Yemisi Akinbobola8 years ago8 years ago03 mins

At the beginning of each working day, I go through a number of time management tools that I use to plan and manage my priorities for that day. One of these tools I have come to love is called the Eisenhower Matrix System which is what I use for a monthly, weekly and daily assessment…

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Project #RCCE Launches Today and Participants are Thrilled about what’s to come

VACANCY: Media and Communications Officer

Conversation with Christabel Ligami

Conversation with Mary Mwendwa

Conversation with Zahara Tunda

Event highlights approaches to fighting misinformation in African newsrooms

The Inverted Pyramid is dying; don’t let your writing follow suit

Female IDPs Continue to Suffer Starvation and Sexual Abuse in Nigerian Camps

How to Use Your Instagram as a Calling Card

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Three Ways To Maximise Your Time on LinkedIn

How Much Should I Charge?

How to Manage Time Effectively

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