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GFMD Traveled to Tunis for IPDCtalks to Mark IDUAI 2018
Our own Navya Hebbar joined right to know (RTK) advocates, journalists, and many others on 27 September in Tunis, Tunisia, for UNESCO’s IPDCtalks conference. The event also served as an opportune occasion to mobilise the international community to discuss and promote media development in developing countries. Read more about her experience here.
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GFMD to Host Session at FoME Symposium 2018
GFMD is organising a session on day two during the annual Forum Media and Development (FoME) Symposium, which will be held from 22-23 November at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany. This year's symposium will focus on media capture, and GFMD Director Mira Milosevic will facilitate a discussion about the sustainability of local journalism by optimistic, pessimistic, and neutral journalists from Serbia, Egypt, and Ukraine. See the program here. |
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[Members Only] GFMD's Capacity Building Programme to Host First Webinar in October
The first webinar in the GFMD members-only series titled "Writing Successful Proposals for Media Development Projects" will be offered on 18 October and 23 October at 15:00 CEST/Brussels time on each day. Facilitated by Michael Randel, the webinar will highlight and explore the key ingredients for success when writing applications for grant funding. |
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Working Group on Internet Governance and Media Development to Meet at IGF 2018 on 12 November
First convened last year in Geneva, the Working Group on Internet Governance and Media Development will meet once again at the 13th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Paris, France, on 12 November. Join GFMD, CIMA, UNESCO, and other media development stakeholders as we launch an issue paper we wrote collaboratively over the past nine months, and devise an engagement strategy for the next 9-12 months. The meeting is open to anyone, but we kindly ask that you register. |
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Got Something to Say About AI and the News? Tell Us!
GFMD's communications manager and advisor on Internet governance, Michael J. Oghia, will participate in UNESCO's open discussion on “Harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Foster Knowledge Societies and Sustainable Development" directly after the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on 15 November. Michael invites GFMD members and partners to submit talking points and insights to share by emailing him at: moghia@gfmd.info |
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[Fellowship] The IWMF Team Reporting Fellowship for February/March 2019 – 28 October
[Fellowship] IREX Community Solutions Program – 31 October
[Job] OSF is hiring a director of their Program on Independent Journalism – 31 October
[Job] EJN seeks a new director and CEO – 9 November
[Job] EJN is offering Photographer’s Ethical Toolkit free online course – Ongoing
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[Event] Mozilla's MisinfoCon 5.0 (London) – 24 October
[Event] UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2018 (global) – 24-31 October
[Event] IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards 2018 (New York + Washington, DC) – 25 October
[Event] African Investigative Journalism Conference (Johannesburg) – 29-31 October
[Event] WAN-IFRA's Digital Media Asia 2018 (Hong Kong) – 7-9 October
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Kabiru Yusuf Named Africa Media Initiative Chairman
Malam Kabiru Yusuf was appointed the new chairman of the African Media Initiative (AMI), taking over the role from the late Wale Aboderin. In a recent statement, AMI's chief executive, Dr. Roukaya Kasenally, said Yusuf would be an asset to the organisation, bringing power and success to Nigeria’s media market, as well as to wider the West African region. |
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Supporting the Quality of Journalism in Today's Digital Age
In response to the myriad challenges facing journalism and the news industry, the the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Quality Journalism in the Digital Age (MSI-JOQ), met for the second time in Strasbourg at the end of September. Read how Tom Law from the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) is participating in the initiative and what their final output (a set of policy recommendations that is expected next summer) means for journalists in the Council's 47 member states.
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An Introduction to Funding for Journalism and Media
Growing concern from international donors about the threats to press freedom and the freedom of expression has produced a fresh wave for support for funding to help this cause. Simultaneously however, financial blockers to enter into the journalism field have never been lower than they are at present. This new funding scheme developed by Ariadne and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative aims to provide funders with the knowledge of key issues relating to the media worldwide.
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Crisis of Citizenship Marks a New Low Facing Residents of Azerbaijan
Recently, denationalisation has been used as a tool for stopping human rights campaigners in Azerbaijan, further restricting the resident's freedom of speech. See how International Media Support (IMS) is monitoring the situation in Azerbaijan, and joined with IFEX, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP) to issue a joint intervention.
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