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    By Cristiana Bedei In our relentless media ecosystem – where content circulates the clock across platforms – choosing the best format for a story is crucial. While the depth of a feature article, the direct engagement of a newsletter, or the sensory experience of a podcast may sound…

    By Camelia Heins As newsrooms navigate financial pressures and shifts in ownership, many journalists have turned to mutual aid to support one another. Mutual aid is the practice in which people come together to assist communities whose needs aren’t being met, often due to a lack of systemic…

By Stratton Marsh The impact journalists can create in their communities is often dependent on how widely their reporting is consumed. In their efforts to gain traction that might spur positive change, journalists might not realize just how many of their colleagues are working on the very same issues in…

    By  Aurora Martinez Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) may fundamentally change how people work. In some ways, it already has – and the technology is rapidly evolving. Take for instance, the emergence of multimodal AI models, which can simultaneously combine images, text and speech to generate new content. Concerns…

  Stanley Ihedigbo Heirs Holdings has launched its first-ever television commercial and the  newly released television commercial (TVC) showcases the company’s diverse portfolio, spanning the power, energy, financial services, hospitality, real estate, healthcare and technology sectors while highlighting its commitment to driving positive change and sustainable development across Africa and…

BOOK REVIEW BOOK TITLE: WE ARE PRICELESS AUTHOR: JULIANA FRANCIS PUBLISHER: WISDOMRIFE LTD NUMBER OF PAGES: 218 REVIEWER: FEMI ADESINA In November 2002, we were getting set to launch The Sun Newspapers into an already saturated newspaper market. But we decided to do things differently, believing that was the way…

  by Lara Reffat Podcasting is on the rise in Africa today. One South African report, for instance, noted a jump in listeners from 22% in 2019 to 48% in 2022 among metro populations in the country. Popularity has even given rise to an annual festival known as Africa Podcast…

  by Kathryn Shine   I had been a journalist for many years when I first became aware of gender inequality in news coverage. I was shocked to learn that men comprise about 75% of the people quoted, heard and seen in the news. Until that point, I’m embarrassed to…

  by Hamzat Ibrahim   Newsrooms in Nigeria are tasked with reporting on those in power, to shine a light on their actions and where they may misstep. In doing so, the media can promote improvement in accountability and good governance, which face significant hurdles in the country today. Recognizing…

by Nika Musavi In early March, protests broke out in Georgia against the passage of the country’s new Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence, which local civil society and foreign organizations consider analogous to the infamous Russian law on foreign agents. The authorities, who seemed unshakable in their intention to…